Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Opopaea apicalis
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Dysderoidea
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Opopaea
Species
apicalis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Epectris apicalis Simon, 1893; Syn.: Opopaea lena Suman, 1965;
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Distribution: Pantropical. Galápagos distribution: Isabela (Sierra Negra), San Cristóbal, 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.
- 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, Opopaea apicalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18534. Accessed 1 November 2026.