Forcipomyia (Microhelea) galapagensis, (Coquillett)

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 24

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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Microhelea) galapagensis
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galapagensis (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon galapagensis Coquillett, 1901a: 372 View in CoL . Johnson 1924: 86 [records]; Curran 1932: 348 [records].

Dasyhelea galapagensis: Curran 1934: 149 [records].

Forcipomyia fuliginosa View in CoL of authors (misidentification): Wirth 1956: 357 [synonymy]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 165 [checklist].

Forcipomyia galapagensis: Wirth 1969b: 573 View in CoL [review]; Linsley 1977: 38 [checklist].

Forcipomyia (Microhelea) galapagensis: Wirth 1972: 572 View in CoL [review]; Wirth 1974: 8 [catalogue]; Borkent 1991: 99 [review]; Borkent & Wirth 1997: 44 [catalogue]; Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 91 [catalogue].

Distribution. Endemic. Galápagos: (Baltra?), Española, Fernandina, (Gardner?), Isabela, Marchena (ICCDRS), Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

Remarks. This species is recorded from the coast to the agricultural zone ( Wirth 1969b). Adults have been collected on the sea surface and in aerial nets between islands ( Peck 1994a, b).