Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tethina insulans
mosca, fly
Collected on intertidal rocks.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Canacidae
Genus
Tethina
Species
insulans
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- 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.
- Foster, G.A. Mathis, W.N. (2008) A review of the Tethininae (Diptera: Canacidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110(3): 743-752.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Tethina insulans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12387. Accessed 1 November 2026.