Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pantala flavescens
The Wandering Glider
Littoral and arid to pampa zones; March-May. It is often taken on vessels far at sea. The species breeds in open temporary ponds, including brackish waters. It drifts with the wind and feeds on insects in the aerial plankton.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Odonata
Suborder
Anisoptera
Superfamily
Libelluloidea
Family
Libellulidae
Genus
Pantala
Species
flavescens
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Baltra, Floreana, Isabela, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.
- Currie, R.P. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899 Entomological Results (3): Odonata. Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 3: 381-389.
- Gerecke, R. Peck, S.B. & Pehofer, H.E. (1995) The invertebrate fauna of the inland waters of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador) - a limnological and zoogeographical summary. Arch. Hydrobiol./ Suppl. 107(2): 113-147.
- Gloger, H. (1964) Bemerkungen über die Odonaten-Fauna der Galapagos-Inseln nach der Ausbeute von Juan Foerster, 1959. Opuscula Zoologica 74: 1-6.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- Peck, S.B. (1992) The dragonflies and damselflies of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Insecta: Odonata). Psyche 99(4): 309-321.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pantala flavescens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10253. Accessed 31 October 2026.