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Basilia ferruginea Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903

mosca, fly

Specimens collected from Lasiurus brachyotis and L. cinereus.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Nycteribiidae

Genus
Basilia

Species
ferruginea

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Neotropical; San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.

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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Basilia ferruginea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12434. Accessed 2 November 2026.