Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Metagonia lagrimas
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Pholcoidea
Family
Pholcidae
Genus
Metagonia
Species
lagrimas
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Isabela (Sierra Negra). References: Huber et al. (2022), (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.
- Huber, B. A. A., Meng, (2022) Metagonia spiders of Galápagos: blind cave-dwellers and their epigean relatives (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 36(7), 647-678.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Metagonia lagrimas", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25295. Accessed 5 November 2026.