Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Paralimna decipiens
mosca, fly
Common in brackish habitats (Mathis 1995b).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Ephydridae
Genus
Paralimna
Species
decipiens
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: obscura of authors (misidentification);
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: New World; Isabela, Santa Cruz, Santiago.
- Mathis, W.N. (1995) Shore flies of the Galápagos Islands (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88(5): 627-640.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Paralimna decipiens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12357. Accessed 2 November 2026.