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Blaesoxipha insularis (Townsend, 1918)

mosca, fly

Species closely related to South American mainland species (Lopes 1978). Opsophytopsis Townsend was previously considered an endemic genus, but is now assigned as a junior synonym of Acridiophaga (Papa 1994).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Sarcophagidae

Genus
Blaesoxipha

Species
insularis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn: spinosa Lopes 1978: 602; Pape 1994: 55 (Acridiophaga); reversa Johnson (not Aldrich) 1924: 89 (Sarcophaga).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Baltra, Isabela, Pinta, Rabida, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

References

  • 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Blaesoxipha insularis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12411. Accessed 2 November 2026.