Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Meridozoros leleupi
Scavenger on fungus spores or small dead arthropods?; humid forest; February-May. Under tree bark; in wet forest litter, also taken in flight intercept traps in humid forest (winged males and females, Kukalova-Peck and Peck, 1993).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Zoraptera
Family
Zorotypidae
Genus
Meridozoros
Species
leleupi
Taxon category: Accepted
A specimen from Venezuela seems to be this species, but the identification needs to be confirmed. Another species, Latinozoros barberi (Choe), occurs on Cocos Island, and in Panama and the Dominican Republic (Kukalova-Peck and Peck, 1993).
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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, Meridozoros leleupi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10707. Accessed 5 November 2026.