Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Nocticanace usingeri
mosca, fly
On intertidal rocks (Wirth 1069b). Larval trombidiid mites are parasitic on this species (Fain & Grootaert 1993).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Canacidae
Genus
Nocticanace
Species
usingeri
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Nocticanace usingeri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12400. Accessed 2 November 2026.