Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Exelastis cervernicolor (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Lepidoptera

Superfamily
Pterophoroidea

Family
Pterophoridae

Genus
Exelastis

Species
cervernicolor

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Introduced - established

Introduction

Year of first record: 1923

Distribution

Distribution: Española, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena, Pinta, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago Peck et al. (1998), Landry (1993), Landry and Gielis (1992), García-Ruilova et al. (2026)

References

  • García-Ruilova, A. B. Donoso, D. A., Basset, Y., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., Garcés-Carrera, S., Jarrín-V, P., Muñoz-Tobar, S. I., Padhye, S., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Quiñónez-Sánchez, D., Sánchez, P., Smith, M. A., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Hebert, P. D. N., & Inclán, D. J. (2026) Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion. Sci Data 13, 1026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07465-z
  • Landry, B. (1993) Additions to the knowledge of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador, with decriptions of two new species. Zool. Med. 67(34): 473-485.
  • Landry, B. Gielis, C. (1992) A synopsis of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Zool. Verhandelingen 276: 3-42.
  • Peck, S.B. Heraty, J., Landry, B. & Sinclair, B.J. (1998) Introduced insect fauna of an oceanic archipelago: The Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Am. Entomol. 44: 218-237.

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