Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Leptocera erythrocera
mosca, fly
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Leptocera
Species
erythrocera
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Limosina erythocera Becker, 1919; Leptocera abdominiseta Duda 1925a: 52.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1966
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: On habitat material (soil, vegetation)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Floreana, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Richards, O.W. (1966) On a collection of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from the Galapagos Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 13, 9: 531-535.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Leptocera erythrocera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12316. Accessed 2 November 2026.