Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pareuxesta obscura
mosca, fly
All specimens collected by the author were found in dry sone near Pto. Villamil on Isabela.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Ulidiidae
Genus
Pareuxesta
Species
obscura
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Coquillett, D.W. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. II. Entomological Results (2): Diptera. Proc. Washington Acad. Sc. 3: 371-379.
- 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. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
- Steyskal, G.C. (1966) Otitidae from the Galápagos Islands (Diptera, Acalyptratae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 34(11): 483-498.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pareuxesta obscura", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12293. Accessed 28 May 2026.