albiceps (Wiedemann)

Musca albiceps Wiedemann, 1819: 38 .

Chrysomya albiceps: Peck 1996: 122 [mode of introduction]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Causton et al. 2006: 133 [introduced species]; Tantawi & Sinclair 2013: 238 [review].

Distribution. Introduced. Afrotropical, Palaearctic, Neotropical; Galápagos: Caamaño, Floreana, Isabela, Marchena (ICCDRS), San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago.

Remarks. Adults of this species were first collected in mainland Ecuador in 1984 (Peris 1985), with the first record from the Galápagos in 1989 (Tantawi & Sinclair 2013). This species breeds in carrion, with larvae being facultative predators on other maggots (Wells & Kurahashi 1997; Tantawi & Sinclair 2013).