Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rothium ashlocki
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Flightless.
Predator, littoral zone, on rocks at low tide; February. The species in the genus are confined to the seashores of the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru and the Galápagos. They are flightless and probably disperse on the sea surface. These two species are so different that they represent separate ancestral colonizations.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Staphylinoidea
Family
Staphylinidae
Section
Myllaeini
Genus
Rothium
Species
ashlocki
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Santa Cruz
- Klimaszewski, J. Peck, S.B. (1998) A Review of Aleocharine rove beetles from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 105(2): 221-260.
- Peck, S.B. (2006) The Beetles of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera) NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 314 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Rothium ashlocki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11333. Accessed 2 November 2026.