Galapagos Species Database

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

Agyneta arida (Baert, 1990)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Superfamily
Araneoidea

Family
Linyphiidae

Genus
Agyneta

Species
arida

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

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

Distribution: Distribution: Only known from Galápagos. Galápagos distribution: Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Cerro Azul, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin), Marchena, Pinzon, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago.

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dupérré, N. (2013) Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseelum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996. Zootaxa 3674: 1-189.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Agyneta arida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18526. Accessed 5 June 2026.