Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Anophthalmolabis sp. nov.
tijereta
Pampa zone; July. An eyeless, wingless species only known from one specimen from under moss mats and rocks on Sierra Negra, about 640 m (Campamento de los Pumas).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Dermaptera
Suborder
Catadermaptera
Superfamily
Pygidicranoidea
Family
Carcinophoridae
Genus
Anophthalmolabis
Species
sp. nov.
Taxon category: New to Science
This population is thought to be a seperate species from that on Santa Cruz because it seems most likely that these two eyeless island populations are reproductively isolated from each other by the sea.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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. (1996) Diversity and distribution of the orthopteroid insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 1497-1510.
- 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, Anophthalmolabis sp. nov.", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10688. Accessed 8 June 2026.