Lucilia deceptor, (Curran)

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926712
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-1957-FFCF-D29F-FA8DFD054E2B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lucilia deceptor
status

Treatment

deceptor (Curran) View in CoL

Viridinsula deceptor Curran, 1934: 166 View in CoL . Linsley & Usinger 1966: 172 [checklist]; Arnaud 1979: 388 [ type catalogue].

Phaenicia ( Viridinsula) deceptor: James 1966a: 479 [review]; James 1970: 11 [catalogue].

Phaenicia deceptor: Linsley 1977: 42 [checklist].

Lucilia deceptor: Tantawi & Sinclair 2013: 238 View in CoL [key, records]; Whitworth 2014: 26 View Cited Treatment diagnosis, records]; Moreno et al. 2020: 120 [checklist].

Viridinsula pionia of authors (misidentification): Curran 1932: 361 [records].

Distribution. Native. Neotropical (Cocos Is.); Galápagos: Baltra, Caamaño, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Marchena, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Seymour.

Remarks. Specimens of this species are primarily collected in littoral and arid zones. Specimens were collected in aerial nets between islands ( Peck 1994a).