Sarcophaga rufiventris, (Wiedemann)

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 75-76

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 ).

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FIGURES 2–7. Galápagos habitats. 2, Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz (1989); 3, Black Beach, Floreana (1989); 4, Floreana, arid zone (March, 1989); 5, Santa Fé, Malaise trap, arid zone (April 1989); 6, rotting Jasminocereus cactus branch; inset: empty puparia of Chrysochlorina fasciata (Thomson); 7, marine iguana dung on beach, Sesuvium sp. in background, Santa Cruz.