Nerius pilifer, Fabricius, 1805

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926454
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scientific name	Nerius pilifer
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pilifer Fabricius View in CoL

Nerius pilifer Fabricius, 1805: 264 View in CoL (T. Sepúlveda pers. comm.).

undetermined species ( Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species]).

Distribution. Introduced. Neotropical; Galápagos: Santa Cruz.

Material examined. Galápagos: Santa Cruz: Salasaoa , 18.v.2004, R . Azvero (9 ♀, CNC) .

Remarks. Numerous adults of this species suddenly appeared in the agricultural zone of Santa Cruz in late 2003. Nerius plurivittatus Bigot breeds in the decaying cambium layer below bark ( Buck 2010).