Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Microsepsis armillata
mosca, fly
Collected at the base of Sierra Negra in 1996 and very abundant around inhabited and agricultural regions of Santa Cruz, especially in dung, in 2001.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Sepsidae
Genus
Microsepsis
Species
armillata
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1992
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: On habitat material (soil, vegetation)
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Neotropical; Floreana, Isabela, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz.
- Peck, S.B. Heraty, J., Landry, B. & Sinclair, B.J. (1998) Introduced insect fauna of an oceanic archipelago: The Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Am. Entomol. 44: 218-237.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Microsepsis armillata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6749. Accessed 4 June 2026.