Galapagos Species Database

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

Hadruroides galapagoensis (Maury, 1974)

Escorpión, Scorpion

Occurs in all vegetation zones.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Scorpiones

Superfamily
Caraboctonoidea

Family
Caraboctonidae

Genus
Hadruroides

Species
galapagoensis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Hadruroides maculatus galapagoensis Maury, 1974; Lourenço (1995) elevates the status of H. maculatus galapagoensis to the species level H. galapagoensis. This same assignment is subsequently used by Baert (2015).

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Baltra, Bartolomé, Daphne, Eden, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Isla Guy Fawkes, North Plaza, Pinzón, Rábida, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Seymour Norte, Santa Fé and South Plaza.

References

  • Desender, K. Baert, L. & Maelfait, J.P. (1988) Carabid Beetles of Galápagos. Unpublished Manuscript.
  • Baert, L.L. Maelfait, J.-P. & Desender, K. (1995) Distribution of the arachnid species of the Orders Scorpiones, Solifugae, Amblypygi, Schizomida, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones in Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 65: 5-19.
  • Desender, K. Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P. & Verdyck P. (1990) Conservation on Volcan Alcedo (Galapagos): terrestrial invertebrates and the impact of introduced feral goats. Biological Conservation 87: 303-310.
  • Baert, L. Mahnert, V. (2015) The distribution of the non‐araneae and non‐acari arachnids of Galápagos Belgian Journal of Entomology 28: 1‐76
  • Lourenço, W. R. (1995) Les Scorpions (Chelicerata, Scorpiones) de l’Equateur avec quelques considérations sur la biogéographie et la diversité des espèces Revue suisse de Zoologie, 102(1): 61‐88.

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