Sarcophaga rufiventris

Authors :: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publication Year :: 2023
Publisher :: Zenodo, 2023.
Abstract: 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).<br />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<br />{"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"]}