Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mecaphesa reddelli
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Thomisoidea
Family
Thomisidae
Genus
Mecaphesa
Species
reddelli
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Distribution: Only known from Galápagos. Galápagos distribution: Fernandina, Genovesa, Isabela (V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Ecuador), Pinta, Rábida, Santa Cruz (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. (2013) The Thomisidae and Philodromidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) European Journal of Taxonomy 43: 1-23
- 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, Mecaphesa reddelli", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18468. Accessed 1 November 2026.