Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Asyndetus versicolor
mosca, fly
This species is confined to the littoral zone. It appears unrelated to any described mainland New World species (Bickel & Sinclair 1998).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Dolichopodidae
Genus
Asyndetus
Species
versicolor
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Neotropical (Cocos Is.); Baltra, Caamano, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Seymour.
- 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.
- Curran, C.H. (1932) The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, Conducted by Alf Wollebæk. 4. Diptera. (Excl. of Tipulidae and Culicidae). Medd. Zool. Mus., Oslo 30: 347-366.
- Johnson, C.W. (1924) Diptera of the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(8): 85-92.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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 versicolor", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12277. Accessed 31 October 2026.