Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eustala occidentalis
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Araneidae
Genus
Eustala
Species
occidentalis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Distribution: Only known from Galápagos. Galápagos distribution: Baltra, Eden, Fernandina, Isabela (Sierra Negra, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin), Marchena, Pinta, Pinzon, Rábida, Santa Cruz, Santiago, Seymour Norte, S. Plaza.
- 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. (2014) Three new Eustala (Araneae, Araneidae) species from the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) European Journal of Taxonomy 86: 1-18
- 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, Eustala occidentalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18472. Accessed 1 November 2026.