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Toxomerus crockeri (Curran, 1934)

mosca, fly

Toxomerus crockeri fly. Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz. Photo: Jacqueline Rodríguez, CDF, 2020.
Toxomerus crockeri fly. Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz. Photo: Jacqueline Rodríguez, CDF, 2020.

McMullen (1986) reported this species was very active in several flowers in the pampa zone of Santa Cruz.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Syrphidae

Genus
Toxomerus

Species
crockeri

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn: duplicata Coquillett (not Wiedemann) 1901a: 374

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

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

Distribution: Española, Floreana, Isabela, Pinta, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

References

  • 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.
  • 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Toxomerus crockeri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7018. Accessed 3 November 2026.