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Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) confusio sp. nov. Figs 8–10 Type material: Holotype ♁: Bismarck Isl. New Britain / Yalom 1000 m. / 22. May 1962. / Noona Dan Exp. 61–62 // Slide / Nr. 10 // PARATYPE / Tricholioproctia / longestylata n.sp. / Paratypus ♁ / Det. H. S. Lopes. Abdomen dissected by Lopes (1967) through a complete detachment from the thorax followed by maceration. Segments 1–4 have been glued back onto the source specimen, while each of T5 and the terminalia exclusive of genitalia are glued to its own piece of cardboard pinned with the specimen. Genitalia and sternite 5 are mounted on a slide (probably in euparal), which is labelled: Tricholioproctia / longestylata n.sp. / Paratypus / Det. H. S. Lopes // Slide / Nr. 10. Pinned specimen and slide deposited in NHM-DK. Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Yalom. Other material: Two females are tentatively considered conspecific with the holotype, but as species concepts in Sarcophaga are strongly based on males, these are not included in the type material. 1♀: Bismarck Isl. New Britain / Yalom 1000 m. / 14. May 1962. / Noona Dan Exp. 61–62 // PARATYPE / Tricholioproctia / longestylata n.sp. / Paratypus ♀ / Det. H. S. Lopes. 1♀: Same data but 17. May 1962. Both in NHM-DK. Etymology: From the Latin confusio = mixture, confusion, disorder. Named for the mixup or confusion involving the present holotype, which was included as a paratype in the nominal taxon Tricholioproctia longestylata Lopes [preoccupied; = S. stylata Pape] without being conspecific with the holotype. The name should be treated as a noun in apposition. Description: Male—Head: Width of frons at narrowest point 0.11 x width of head (n = 1). Tomentum golden across entirety of head with greyish golden spot on the post-gena. Frontal setae strongest at vertex, with a very slight reduction in length towards the antennae, stretching past the lunule and all the way to the end of the fronto-orbital plate. Ocellar triangle with scattered setulae, ocellar setae weaker than frontal setae. Vertical setae not distinguishable from postocular setae. Antenna with black scape and pedicel, golden brown postpedicel with brownish arista. Palpus black. Vibrissa strong. Genal setae black, postgenal setae yellowish. Thorax: Yellow tomentum, less golden than on face; dorsally with three black stripes, middle stripe running from presutural scutum to approximately 0.65 of length of scutellum, lateral stripes running from presutural scutum to 0.8 of length of postsutural scutum. Prosternum bare. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 1+1, dorsocentrals = 2+4, intra-alars = 1+2, supra-alars = 1+4, postalars = 1, anterior postpronotal = 0, basal postpronotal = 3, basal scutellars = 1, discal scutellars = 0, subapical scutellars = 2, apical scutellars = 1. Legs: Black with greyish yellow area posteriorly on fore femur. Hind tibia with long and strong setosity along posterior surface. Wing: Veins brown with anal veins fading distally. Wing membrane hyaline, cells close to the base with yellow tint. Alula hyaline. Upper and lower calypter bright yellow. Vein R4+5 with dorsal setulae at base, cell r4+5 open at wing margin. Abdomen: Brownish with yellow tomentum leaving a narrow dark brown median stripe ending on T3. Median marginal setae present on T3 and T4. Posterior margin of ST4 with broad patch of tightly set, short, robust setae extending across the entire margin and almost level with the surrounding surface. Terminalia: Cercus distinctly and evenly curved, without particularly strong setae. Hypandrium with posterior margin unmodified. Pregonite with largely straight anterior and posterior margins, like a long triangle; postgonite almost rectangular but with a short, pointed tip at the posterior corner. Juxta abruptly terminated, with distal margin forming a fold, vesica gradually expanding apically and reaching level of tip of juxta, lateral stylus about twice as long as juxta and sclerotized to the tip. Remarks: Lopes (1967) based his nominal taxon Tricholioproctia longestylata on a type series from the Bismarck Archipelago: the holotype, three male and four female paratypes from New Ireland, Lemkamin; and one male and two female paratypes from New Britain, Yalom. Lopes (1967: 160) mentioned that “Specimens from New Britain are somewhat less intensely golden than the flies from New Ireland ”, but he did not follow this up with a thorough comparison of male terminalia. He dissected and illustrated (Lopes 1967, fig. 38) the only male that was not from the same island as the holotype, while the holotype itself was left undissected [this now has its terminalia fully extended as part of the present study]. This type series is here considered to comprise two different species: Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) stylata from New Ireland, Lemkamin, and S. (S.) confusio sp. n. from New Britain, Yalom. The illustration of Lopes (1967, fig. 38) is an exact match with the slide-mounted genitalia of the holotype of S. (S.) confusio sp. n. with regard to overall orientation as well as in the shape of the vesica and juxta, both of which are very prone to distortions during dissection and slide-mounting, but there are differences in the position of the gonites and lateral styles (compare Figs 11 and 16). Lopes may have produced the illustration before he prepared the permanent slide-mount, or he may have edited his illustration to give the gonites and lateral styles a position more suitable for comparing these important diagnostic structures with figures of other species. Sarcophaga confusio sp. n. and Sarcophaga stylata are morphologically very similar, and they are separated geographically only by the narrow Saint George’s Channel between New Britain and New Ireland. With several features of the external morphology as well as of the male terminalia ensuring an unambiguous separation, it is considered justified to treat the two island populations as different species., Published as part of Geisler, Lucas & Pape, Thomas, 2023, Two new species of the ' Big Yellows' (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga), pp. 190-202 in Zootaxa 5311 (2) on pages 193-194, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5311.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8094188, {"references":["Lopes, H. S. (1967). Some Sarcophagidae (Diptera) from the Bismarck Islands and the Philippines. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 35 (44), 143 - 176."]}

Key to male Sarcophaga spp. of the ‘Big Yellows’ group 1. Thorax strikingly golden yellow with strongly contrasting black stripes dorsally; abdomen either extensively golden yellowish or entirely black, and without the usual chequerboard pattern of grey, black and silvery................ ‘Big Yellows’ … 2 - Thorax not striking golden yellow; abdomen neither extensively golden yellowish nor entirely black................................................................................................. Other species of Sarcophaga 2. Thorax dorsally with two strong black stripes and with a faint or narrow dark median stripe; proanepisternum bare.......................................................................... S. (Chrysosarcophaga) superba (Townsend) - Thorax dorsally with three strong, black stripes; proanepisternum setose.................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia).... 3 3. Wing membrane orange or yellow proximal to crossveins. Hind femur curved.Abdomen ventrally with yellowish setae. Sternite 4 posterior margin medially with unmodified setae. Lateral stylus large and broad.................................. 4 - Wing membrane blackish, brownish or hyaline proximal to crossveins. Hind femur straight. Abdomen ventrally with black setae. Sternite 4 posterior margin medially with a patch of short, densely set setae. Lateral stylus slender, tube-shaped..... 5 4. Sternite 5 V-shaped. Lateral stylus funnel-like expanded distally, with a tapering ventral process, and apically with dense microvilli.............................................................. S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) vanuatu Pape - Sternite 5 U-shaped. Lateral stylus broadly sickle-shaped in lateral view, without a ventral process or microvilli................................................................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) hugoi Pape 5. Hypandrium with posterior margin folding downwards as a pair of rugose or striated lobes (Fig. 7); lateral stylus with distal fourth partly membranous.............................................................................. 6 - Hypandrium with posterior margin unmodified, not folding downwards; lateral stylus sclerotized to the tip.............. 8 6. Cercus with dorsal surface bare. Pregonite simple, not split. Apical hook of vesica without or with a short subapical constriction or ‘neck’. Lateral stylus less than twice as long as juxta....................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) whitneyi (Curran) - Cercus dorsally with robust setae at least in the middle. Pregonite deeply split. Apical hook of vesica on a long, slender ‘neck’. Lateral stylus at least twice as long as juxta................................................................. 7 7. Pregonite with larger tip pointed. Vesica slender, without a subapical tooth (Fig. 18). Lateral stylus slender, more than twice as long as juxta and with distinct serration along concave surface (Figs 8, 9).................................................................................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) isorokui (Shinonaga & Kano) - Pregonite with larger tip blunt. Vesica broad, with a subapical tooth (Fig. 21). Lateral stylus more robust, about twice as long as juxta, and without serration along concave surface....................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) narabondxii sp. nov. 8. Abdomen entirely black................................................................................ 9 - Abdomen mostly yellow............................................................................... 11 9. Occiput with only golden setae. Gena with only golden setae. Distal third of cercus perfectly straight, bare (Fig. 19). Pregonite deeply cleft. Vesica broad and almost trapezoidal in lateral view, with the apical hook abruptly set off from remaining vesica (Fig. 19).......................................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) magnifica (Baranov) - Occiput with black setae in dorsal part. Gena with some or all setae black. Distal third of cercus gently curved or undulant. Pregonite with a shallow cleft. Vesica not particularly broad, and the apical hook either undeveloped or gradually set off from remaining vesica..................................................................................... 10 10. Wing blackish proximal to crossveins. Cercus undulant; without particularly strong, spike-like setae proximal to tip. Vesica bulky at base and with small, recurved tip................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) piciventris Pape - Wing light brownish or dark orange proximal to crossveins. Cercus almost straight; with a patch of strong, spike-like setae proximal to tip. Vesica with slender base and pickaxe-like distal part.................................................................................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) nigridorsalis (Shinonaga & Kano) 11. Antenna orange. Palpus orange......................................... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) aureifacies (Lopes) - Antenna dark brown or greyish black. Palpus greyish black................................................... 12 12. Juxta tapering into a slender tip.............................. S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) malaitensis (Shinonaga & Kano) - Juxta abruptly terminated.............................................................................. 13 13. Juxta with distal margin simple. Lateral stylus at most a little longer than juxta.... S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) separata (Lopes) - Juxta with distal margin forming a fold. Lateral stylus about twice as long as juxta................................. 14 14. All genal setae black, postgenal setae yellowish. Sternite 4 at posterior margin with broad patch of tightly set, robust setae extending across the entire margin and almost level with the surrounding surface. Cercus gently curved. Pregonite with largely straight anterior and posterior margins, resembling a long triangle. Vesica gradually expanding apically and reaching level of tip of juxta............................................................ S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) confusio sp. nov. - Genal setae black in upper half, yellowish on lower half, postgenal setae yellowish. Sternite 4 at posterior margin with very tightly set, robust setae arranged in a patch occupying about half of the margin and raised slightly but distinctly above the adjacent surface. Cercus curved in an almost perfect half-circle. Pregonite with gently curved anterior and posterior margins. Vesica with middle part parallel-sided and ending well before tip of juxta............. S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) stylata Pape Distribution of Sarcophaga species in the ‘Big Yellows’ group: [Based on Lopes (1967), Lopes & Kano (1978, 1981) and the present paper. For nomenclature, see Pape (1996).] S. (Chrysosarcophaga) superba (Townsend, 1933) [Solomon Islands: Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Malaita] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) aureifacies (Lopes, 1967) [Bismarck Islands: New Ireland] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) confusio sp. nov. [Bismarck Islands: New Britain] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) hugoi Pape, 1996 [Vanuatu] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) isorokui (Shinonaga & Kano, 1993) [Solomon Islands: Bougainville] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) magnifica (Baranov, 1938) [Solomon Islands: Guadalcanal, Kolombangara, Malaita, New Georgia, Vella Lavella] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) malaitensis (Shinonaga & Kano, 1993) [Solomon Islands: Malaita] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) narabondxii sp. nov. [Solomon Islands: Nggele Islands] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) nigridorsalis (Shinonaga & Kano, 1993) [Solomon Islands: Malaita] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) piciventris Pape, 1996 [Bismarck Islands: Manus] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) separata (Lopes, 1967) [Bismarck Islands: New Ireland] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) stylata Pape, 1996 [Bismarck Islands: New Ireland] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) vanuatu Pape, 1996 [Vanuatu] S. (Sarcorohdendorfia) whitneyi (Curran, 1936) [Bismarck Islands: New Britain; Solomon Islands: Bougainville, Guadalcanal], Published as part of Geisler, Lucas & Pape, Thomas, 2023, Two new species of the ' Big Yellows' (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga), pp. 190-202 in Zootaxa 5311 (2) on pages 197-198, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5311.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8094188, {"references":["Lopes, H. S. (1967). Some Sarcophagidae (Diptera) from the Bismarck Islands and the Philippines. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 35 (44), 143 - 176.","Lopes, H. S. & Kano, R. (1978) On the monotypic genus Chrysosarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Pacific Insects, 18, 223 - 226. Available from: http: // hbs. bishopmuseum. org / fiji / pdf / lopes-kano 1978. pdf (accessed 25 May 2023)","Pape, T. (1996). Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world. Memoirs of Entomology International, 8 (2), 1 - 558.","Shinonaga, S. & Kano, R. (1993) Five new species of sarcophagid flies from Fiji and Solomon Islands (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 44 (1), 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.7601 / mez. 44.1 _ 1","Curran, C. H. (1936) The Templeton Crocker Expedition to western Polynesian and Melanesian islands, 1933 No. 30 Diptera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 22, 1 - 63, pls 1 - 2. Available from: https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / part / 9603 (accessed 25 May 2023)"]}

Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia) narabondxii sp. nov. Figs 13–14 Type material: Holotype ♁: LFloridaI / SolomonIs / Mar 1945 / GEBohart. Terminalia glued to a separate piece of cardboard pinned under the specimen. Deposited in USNM. Type locality: Solomon Islands, Central Province, Nggele Islands [= Florida Islands]. Etymology: The name narabondxii (from Narabond = a fictional nation, and xii = Roman numeral for twelve) was chosen as an homage to the players that portray the fictional group of soldiers from the twelfth company of the fictional nation Narabond, which is part of the Danish live-action roleplaying universe Niraham and the community “Nordlenets Saga ”. The junior author (LG) is an active member, and soldiers will dress in black and yellow colours reminiscent of the present species. Suggested pronunciation: n/ɑː/r/ɑː/bonds/ɪaɪ/. Description: Male—Head: Width of frons at narrowest point 0.04 x width of head (n = 1). Tomentum bright yellow across entirety of face with greyish spot on the post-gena and a black patch inside the ocellar triangle. Frontal setae equally strong from vertex to the upper part of parafacial plate, stretching past lunule and all the way to the end of the frontoorbital plate. Ocellar triangle with scattered setulae, ocellar setae equal to the weakest of the frontal setae. Inner vertical seta stronger than strongest frontal setae, outer vertical seta approximately 0.5 x length of inner vertical seta. Antenna with black scape and pedicel, golden brown postpedicel with golden brown arista. Palpus black. Vibrissa well developed [judged from the socket, the seta itself has been lost]. Genal and postgenal setae yellowish. Thorax: Yellow tomentum, matching colour of head; dorsally with three black stripes, middle stripe running from presutural scutum to approximately 0.5 of the length of scutellum, lateral stripes running from presutural to 0.9 of the length of postsutural scutum. Prosternum with black setae laterally. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 0+0, dorsocentrals = 5+2 (one broken but socket remaining), intra-alars = 2+2, supra-alars = 2+3, postalars = 2, anterior postpronotal = 0, basal postpronotal = 2, basal scutellars = 1, subapical scutellars = 2, apical scutellars = 1, discal scutellars = 0. Legs: Brown with greyish yellow area posteriorly on fore femur. Hind tibia with long and strong setosity along posterior surface. Wing: Veins brown with cubital vein and anal veins fading distally. Wing membrane hyaline, subcostal and discal cell with brown tint. Alula whitish to light brown. Upper and lower calypter whitish with yellow edge. Vein R4+5 with dorsal setulae at base, cell r4+5 open at wing margin. Abdomen: T1+2 black with two lighter grey spots on each side of median line, T3–5 with yellow tomentum except for black anterior bands; black median stripe reaching T5. Median marginal setae present on T4 and T5. Posterior margin of ST4 with patch of densely set short, bristly setae on a raised ‘hump’ covering about a third of the posterior margin. Terminalia: Cercus gently curved, with dorsal surface equipped with several robust setae in the middle. Hypandrium with posterior margin folding downwards as a pair of rugose or striated lobes. Pregonite deeply split, with larger tip blunt; postgonite tapering, with sigmoid anterior margin. Juxta tapering; vesica broad, with subapical tooth on a long, slender ‘neck’, apically with blunt tip; lateral stylus at least twice as long as juxta, with distal fourth partly membranous and without serration along the concave surface. Remarks: The holotype label gives the locality as “LFloridaI”, but the initial L is here interpreted as an error. The US navy had a base on Nggela Sule, which is the larger of the two main islands often referred to as Florida Islands (United States 1947), and George E. Bohart probably collected the specimen when deployed there as a medical entomologist (Entomological Society of America 2011). Morphologically S. narabondxii sp. nov. is most similar to S. isorokui (Shinonaga) but separable by the features given in the key. The sparse current material would indicate that S. narabondxii sp. nov. is found only on the Nggela Islands, while S. isorokui is restricted to Bougainville Island more than 500 km to the west., Published as part of Geisler, Lucas & Pape, Thomas, 2023, Two new species of the ' Big Yellows' (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga), pp. 190-202 in Zootaxa 5311 (2) on pages 195-197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5311.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8094188, {"references":["Lopes, H. S. (1967). Some Sarcophagidae (Diptera) from the Bismarck Islands and the Philippines. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 35 (44), 143 - 176.","Shinonaga, S. & Kano, R. (1989) A new species of Johnstonimyia Lopes from Vanuatu (New Hebrides) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 84 (Supplement 4), 487 - 489. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0074 - 02761989000800085","Shinonaga, S. & Kano, R. (1993) Five new species of sarcophagid flies from Fiji and Solomon Islands (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 44 (1), 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.7601 / mez. 44.1 _ 1","Kano, R. & Lopes, H. S. (1981) On Johnstonimyia Lopes with descriptions of two new species from Australian Region (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Revista brasileira de Biologia, 41 (2), 295 - 298.","United States (1947) Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940 - 1946. Vol. 2. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 522 pp. Available from: https: // www. history. navy. mil / research / library / online-reading-room / title-list-alphabetically / b / building-the-navys-bases / buildingthe-navys-bases-vol- 1 - part-II. html (accessed 25 May 2023)","Entomological Society of America (2011) George E. Bohart, ESA Fellow (1951). Available from: https: // www. entsoc. org / fellows / george-e-bohart-esa-fellow- 1951 (accessed 2 January 2023)"]}

rufiventris (Wiedemann) (T. Tantawi pers. comm.). Sarcophaga rufiventris Wiedemann, 1830: 362. Distribution. Introduced. Australasian/ Oceanian, Nearctic, Neotropical; Galápagos: Baltra, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz. Material examined. Galápagos Islands: Santa Cruz: CDRS, beach zone, 19.vi.2016, marine iguana dung, B.J. Sinclair (2 ♁, CNC). Remarks. This is a common city species in Brazil and it has been reared from damaged turtle eggs and hatchlings in Costa Rica (Carvalho-Filho & Esposito 2012). Galápagos specimens have been collected on beaches, sometimes associated with marine iguana dung (Fig. 7)., Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667, {"references":["Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten. Zweiter Theil. s. n., Hamm, xii + 684 pp.","Carvalho-Filho, F. S. & Esposito, M. C. (2012) Revision of Argoravinia Townsend (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Brazil with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 3256 (1), 1 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3256.1.1"]}

bakeri (Aldrich) (T. Pape pers. comm.). Sarcophaga bakeri Aldrich, 1916: 270. Oxysarscodexia bakeri: Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species]. Distribution. Introduced. Nearctic, Neotropical; Galápagos: Baltra, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz. Material examined. Galápagos: San Cristobal: Pto Baquerizo, south beach, littoral, y.pans, 14–21.ii.1989, BJS (1 ♁, CNC). Santa Cruz: Barranco, arid zone, 19.i.2015, fish bait tp 4.2, O. Mollá (1 ♁, CNC). Remarks. Adults have been collected in pan traps set along beaches, and in sweeps over marine iguana dung., Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667, {"references":["Aldrich, J. M. (1916) Sarcophaga and allies in North America. Thomas Say Publications. Vol. 1. Murphey-Bivins Co. Press, La Fayette, Indiana, 302 pp., 16 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 32298","Causton, C. E., Peck, S. B., Sinclair, B. J., Roque-Albelo, L., Hodgson, C. J. & Landry, B. (2006) Alien insects: threats and implications for conservation of Galapagos Islands. Annals of Entomological Society of America, 99 (1), 121 - 143. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / 0013 - 8746 (2006) 099 [0121: AITAIF] 2.0. CO; 2"]}

aurata (Macquart) Sarcophaga aurata Macquart, 1851: 207. Pape 2008: 45 [distribution]; Souza et al. 2020: 29 [review]. Sarcophaga taitensis Schiner, 1868: 314. Curran 1932: 365 [records]; Curran 1934: 168 (Sarcophaga); Linsley & Usinger 1966: 172 [checklist]. Oxysarcodexia taitensis: Lopes 1969: 27 [catalogue]; Lopes 1978: 604 [records]; Lopes & Tibana 1987: 344 [checklist]; Pape 1996: 269 [catalogue]; Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species]; Pape 2008: 44 [as syn. of S. aurata]. Sarcophaga obtusifrons Thomson, 1869: 536. Coquillett 1901a: 374 [records]; Johnson 1924: 89 [records]; Townsend 1931: 77 [transferred to Oxysarcodexia]; Curran 1932: 365 [as syn. of S. taitensis]; Souza et al. 2020: 28 [remarks on types]. Distribution. Introduced. Australasian/ Oceanian, Neotropical; Galápagos: Baltra, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago. Remarks. 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)., Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667, {"references":["Macquart, J. (1851) Dipteres exotique nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement. Memoires de la Societe Nationale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts, Lille, 1850, 134 - 294, pls. 15 - 28.","Pape, T. (2008) Nominal species of Australasian / Oceanian Sarcophagidae proposed by P. J. M. 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