Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pentacora sphacelata
Shore Bug
Predator on small invertebrates; inhabitant of shoreline of fresh or saline water and coastal lagoons; January-April.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Heteroptera
Superfamily
Saldoidea
Family
Saldidae
Genus
Pentacora
Species
sphacelata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Salda rubromaculata
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Froeschner, R.C. (1985) Synopsis of the Heteroptera or True Bugs of the Galápagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 407: 1-84.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
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- 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.
- Polhemus, J.T. (1968) A report on the Saldidae collected by the Galapagos International Scientific Project 1964 (Hemiptera). Proceedings from the Entomological Society of Washington 70(1): 21-24.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pentacora sphacelata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11134. Accessed 7 June 2026.