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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 ↓

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

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