Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Forcipomyia galapagensis
mosquito
This species is recorded from the coast to the agricultural zone (Wirth 1969b).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Forcipomyia
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dasyhelea galapagensis, Ceratopogon galapagensis, fide Wirth (1969)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Baltra, Española, Fernandina, Gardner, Isabela, Marchena, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.
- Borkent, A. (1991) The Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador with a Discussion of their Phylogenetic Relationships and Zoogeographic Origins. Entomologica Scandinavica 22(1): 97-120.
- Coquillett, D.W. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. II. Entomological Results (2): Diptera. Proc. Washington Acad. Sc. 3: 371-379.
- Curran, C.H. (1932) The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, Conducted by Alf Wollebæk. 4. Diptera. (Excl. of Tipulidae and Culicidae). Medd. Zool. Mus., Oslo 30: 347-366.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Sea-surface (Pleuston) transport of insects between islands in the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador. Annls. Entomol. Soc. Am. 87(5): 576-582.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Aerial dispersal of insects between and to islands in the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador. Annls. Entomol. Soc. Am. 87(2): 218-224.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Forcipomyia galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5863. Accessed 1 November 2026.