Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hogna jacquesbreli
Lives in the Fern-sedge zone. On Volcán Cerro Azul in a pampa girdle located between 680 and 1100 m of altitude and on Volcán Sierra Negra above 700 m of altitude till the top of the crater.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Lycosoidea
Family
Lycosidae
Genus
Hogna
Species
jacquesbreli
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: Isabela (Cerro Azul, Sierra Negra) (Baert et al., 2023).
- 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.L. Maelfait, J-P. & Hendrickx, F. (2008) The Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the Galápagos Archipelago. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 78: 5-37.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hogna jacquesbreli", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11925. Accessed 3 November 2026.