Galapagos Species Database
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Asyndetus mystacinus
mosca, fly
Collected in the littoral zone. Morphologically most similar to A. bursericola of the A. tibialis species-group (Bickel & Sinclair 1997).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Dolichopodidae
Genus
Asyndetus
Species
mystacinus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Bickel, D.J. Sinclair, B.J. (1997) The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands, with notes on the New World fauna. Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 241-270.
- Sinclair, B. J. (2023) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Zootaxa, 5283, 1-102
- Sinclair, B.J. Peck, S.B. (2005) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Asyndetus mystacinus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12275. Accessed 2 November 2026.