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Diptera (flies) of the British Indian Ocean Territory

This is a guide to the Diptera of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The species listed here are primarily those recorded in the Zoological Society London checklist. Additional species have been added from surveys collected through a Darwin Plus project (DPLUS151). This list is not exhaustive ...more ↓

Yellow Fever Mosquito 1
Aedes aegypti
Asian Tiger Mosquito 2
Aedes albopictus
Agromyza 3
Allotrichoma 3
Asynapta
Atherigona orientalis 4
Atrichopogon 5
Bezzia 3
Bradysia tritici
Cadrema pallida 6
Chironomus 7
Oriental Latrine Fly 4
Chrysomya megacephala
Chrysosoma leucopogon 4
Chrysotus pallidipalpus 8
Chrysotus longipalpus
Clinopogon 9
Clinopogon nicobarensis
Bathroom Moth Fly 4
Clogmia albipunctata
Coproica ferruginata 3
Coproica hirtula 3
House Mosquito Complex 10
Culex pipiens
Southern House Mosquito 4
Culex quinquefasciatus
Dasyhelea 3
Small Fruit Flies 11
Drosophila
Big-headed Lagoon Fly 12
Eristalinus megacephalus
Forcipomyia 13
Hecamede granifera 14
Holoplagia guamensis 11
Homoneura 3
Hydrotaea chalcogaster 15
Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly 3
Ischiodon scutellaris
Lamprolonchaea smaragdi
Lestodiplosis 16
Lestremia 3
Lonchaea 4
Australian Sheep Blow Fly 17
Lucilia cuprina
Megaselia 18
Common House Fly 19
Musca domestica
Dog Dung Fly 20
Musca sorbens
Mycodrosophila 21
Nemotelus 4
Nostima 14
Nostima striata
Olfersia aenescens 22
Olfersia aenescens
Green Jewel Fly 23
Ornidia obesa
Ornithoica 24
Ornithophila 4
Physiphora alceae 3
Poecilosomella angulata 25
Polypedilum nubifer 3
Porricondyla
Pseudosmittia 3
Psychoda alternata 3
Psychoda savaiiensis
Pullimosina moesta 26
Limosina
Rhinia apicalis 4
Sapromyza 27
Sarcophaga dux
Sarcophaga peregrina 28
Sarcophaga ruficornis 29
Scatella 30
Scholastes cinctus 11
Sepsis 31
Sepsis lateralis 12
Spelobia bifrons 3
Stable Fly 3
Stomoxys calcitrans
Tethina 32
Thyrsocnema

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