Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Introduced - established

Year of first record: 1964

Mode of introduction: Accidental

Introduction Pathway: Contaminant

Subpathway: On habitat material (soil, vegetation)

Introduced status: Naturalized

Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Santa Cruz

• Paclt, J. (1976) Diploures et Thysanoures recoltés dans les îles Galápagos et en Ecuador par N. et J. Leleup. Mission zoologique belge aux îles Galápagos et en Ecuador (N. et J. Leleup, 1964-65) 3: 115-134.
• Peck, S.B. Kulalova-Peck, J. (1986) Preliminary summary of the subterranean fauna of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Part I. Introduction and Non-Insect invertebrates. Proc. 9th Intnl. Congr. Speleology, Barcelona 2: 164-166.
• Peck, S.B. (1990) Eyeless arthropods of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: Composition and origin of the cryptozoic fauna of a young, tropical, oceanic archipelago. Biotropica 22(4): 366-381.
• Peck, S.B. Heraty, J., Landry, B. & Sinclair, B.J. (1998) Introduced insect fauna of an oceanic archipelago: The Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Am. Entomol. 44: 218-237.
• 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.