Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mastophora rabida
Coastal Arid zone (0-20 m).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Araneidae
Genus
Mastophora
Species
rabida
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Distribution: Only known from Galápagos. Galápagos distribution: Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela ( V. Alcedo, V. Darwin), Rábida, Santa Cruz.
- Baert, L. Jean-Pierre Maelfait, Konjev Desender, Frederik Hendrickx (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1–188.
- Baert, L. (2013) Description of several unknown Galápagos male and female spiders. Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 149: 64-73.
- Baert, L.L. Malfait, J.-P., Hendrickx, F. & Desender, K. (2008) Distribution and Habitat Preference of the Spiders (Araneae) of Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 78: 39-111.
- Buchholz, S. Baert, L., Rodríguez, J., E Causton, C., & Jäger, H. (2020) Spiders in Galapagos–diversity, biogeography and origin. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(1), 41-48.
- Levi, H. W. (2003) The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157(5): 309-382.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mastophora rabida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11903. Accessed 3 November 2026.