Simulium (Psilopelmia), Enderlein

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FFACFB44-873F-4C12-90CF-D8442910659A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7925605

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-190B-FF93-D29F-FAA8FEC44E44

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Simulium (Psilopelmia)
status

 

Subgenus Psilopelmia Enderlein View in CoL View at ENA

undetermined species (P.H. Adler pers. comm.).

Simulium (Psilopelmia) ochraceum: Adler & Crosskey 2018: 82 View in CoL [catalogue].

Simulium bipunctatum Malloch, 1912a: 650 View in CoL . Abedrabbo et al. 1993: 108 [first record]; Gerecke et al. 1995: 128 [aquatic invertebrates]; Crosskey & Shelley 1994: 21 [review]; Peck 1996: 122 [mode of transportation]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Causton et al. 2006: 135 [introduced species]; Sinclair 2009: 113 [introduced species].

Distribution. Not determined; Galápagos: San Cristóbal.

Remarks. This species is believed to have been introduced with agricultural products in 1989 and is presently found in large numbers in La Toma and other streams (Abedrabbo et al. 1993; Gerecke et al. 1995). This species reportedly bites human ( Crosskey & Shelley 1994). This blackfly is only permanently established on San Cristóbal, but during the 1998 El Niño event, it became temporarily established on three other islands ( Roque-Albelo & Causton 1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Simuliidae

Genus

Simulium

Loc

Simulium (Psilopelmia)

Sinclair, Bradley J. 2023
2023
Loc

Simulium (Psilopelmia) ochraceum:

Adler & Crosskey 2018: 82
2018
Loc

Simulium bipunctatum

Malloch 1912: 650
1912
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