Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hadruroides galapagoensis
Escorpión, Scorpion
Occurs in all vegetation zones.
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
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.
- 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 Unpublished Manuscript.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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