Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Thymoites confraternus
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Thymoites
Species
confraternus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Distribution: Mexico to Peru. Galápagos distribution: Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Cerro Azul, Sierra Negra, V. Darwin, V . Wolf), Pinzon, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago (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, Thymoites confraternus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18551. Accessed 1 November 2026.