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Canaceoides angulatus Wirth, 1969

mosca, fly

Intertidal rocks (Wirth 1969b).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Canacidae

Genus
Canaceoides

Species
angulatus

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Pacific coast of Americas; Hawaiian Archipelago; Pinta, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Española, Floreana, Seymour.

References

  • Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
  • 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
  • Wirth, W.W. (1969) New species and records of Galápagos Diptera. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Fourth Series 36(20): 571-594.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Canaceoides angulatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12390. Accessed 3 November 2026.