Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Opopaea deserticola
Littoral zone, lower Arid zone, Bursera forest, Culture zone; in a cave on Sierra Negra (Isabela).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Dysderoidea
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Opopaea
Species
deserticola
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Distribution: Pantropical, Introduced. Galápagos distribution: Baltra, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Sierra Negra, V. Wolf), San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Seymour Norte (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. (2000) Check List of the Described Spider Species of the Galápagos Archipelago (Araneae). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 70: 243-245.
- 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, Opopaea deserticola", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11931. Accessed 1 November 2026.