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Galopagomyia inoa (Walker, 1849)

mosca, fly

Galopagomyia inoa found on a corpse of Zalophus wollebaeki Photo: Lenyn Betancourt-Cargua.

The place of G.inoa in the subfamily Paramacronychiinae is in revision.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Sarcophagidae

Genus
Galopagomyia

Species
inoa

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn: Sarcophaga inoa Walker, 1849:832. Galápagos Is. Microcerella steindachneri Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891:389. Galápagos Is. (Pape, 1996)

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

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

Distribution: Baltra, Bartolomé, Darwin, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Marchena, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Seymour.

References

Pape, T. (1996) Catalogue of the sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera) Memoirs on Entomology International. 8, 557 pp.
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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.

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