Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Orchestina galapagos
Jumping Goblin Spiders
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Dysderoidea
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Orchestina
Species
galapagos
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- 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 galapagos", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20396. Accessed 4 November 2026.