Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Orchestina fernandina
Jumping Goblin Spiders
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Dysderoidea
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Orchestina
Species
fernandina
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- 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.
- Izquierdo, M. A. Ramírez, M. J. (2017) Taxonomic revision of the jumping goblin spiders of the genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, in the Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2017(410), 1-362.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Orchestina fernandina", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20395. Accessed 5 November 2026.