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Oxysarcodexia aurata (Macquart, 1851)

This species was described initially from Tahiti, and was subsequently recorded from Fiji, French Polynesia (Austral Is, Marquesas Is, Society Is, Tubuai Is), New Caledonia, Tonga, Western Samoa, and throughout South and Central America (Souza et al. 2020). This species was commonly collected in dung traps during the Galápagos surveys. Adults have been collected on the flowers of Cryptocarpus pyriformis (Hervías-Parejo & Traveset 2018). (See Sinclair, 2023).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Sarcophagidae

Genus
Oxysarcodexia

Species
aurata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn: Oxysarcodexia taitensis

Origin: Introduced - established

Introduction

Year of first record: 1899

Mode of introduction: Accidental

Introduction Pathway: Contaminant

Subpathway: On habitat material (soil, vegetation)

Introduced status: Naturalized

Invasive status: No data

Distribution

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

Distribution: Baltra, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

References

  • De Souza Lopes, H. (1978) Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of Galapagos Islands. Rev. Brasil. Biol. 38(3): 595-611.
  • Sinclair, B. J. (2023) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Zootaxa, 5283, 1-102

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"Galapagos Species Database, Oxysarcodexia aurata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19871. Accessed 4 November 2026.