Zaprionus indianus, Gupta, 1970

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 58

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scientific name	Zaprionus indianus
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indianus Gupta View in CoL View at ENA

Zaprionus indianus Gupta, 1970: 63 View in CoL .

Zaprionus species View in CoL : Causton & Sevilla 2007: 145 [introduced species].

Distribution. Introduced. Cosmopolitan. Galápagos: San Cristóbal (ICCDRS), Santa Cruz.

Remarks. This species was first recorded on the basis of a single specimen collected in a McPhail trap in Puerto Ayora in January 2006. It has been reared on a wide variety of fruits as well as in tortoise dung (Lehnen et al. unpubl.). Elsewhere, this species is often associated with damaged or fallen rotting fruit, as well as a commercial pests of many tropical fruits ( Van der Linde et al. 2006).