Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mesaphorura yosii
Scavenger; in litter in agricultural, humid forest, evergreen shrub, and pampa zones; January-March
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Entognatha
Order
Collembola
Suborder
Poduromorpha
Superfamily
Onychiuroidea
Family
Onychiuridae
Genus
Mesaphorura
Species
yosii
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Species described from China, found in Norway, Germany, Poland, France, Austria, North Korea, Vietnam, Java, Iraq, Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, New Caledonia, and now on two of the Galapagos Islands (Thibaud & Jacquemart, 1991).
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
- Najt, J. Thibaud, J.-M., & Jacquemart, S. (1991) Les Collemboles (Insecta) de l´Archipel des Galápagos. I. Poduromorpha. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique, Entomol. 61: 149-166.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mesaphorura yosii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10056. Accessed 18 July 2025.