Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rhomphaea fictilium
Lower Arid zone, Bursera forest, Transition forest, Fern-sedge zone on the northern Isabela volcano Alcedo; also in the summit Arid zone on the northern Isabela
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Rhomphaea
Species
fictilium
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Argyrodes fictilium (Hentz, 1850), fide Baert et al. (2008). In some previous publications misspelled and written as Rhompaea fictilium.
Origin: Cryptogenic
Distribution: Distribution: Canada to Argentina. Galápagos distribution: Fernandina, Isabela (Cerro Aul, Sierra Negra, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Wolf), Marchena, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.
- 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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Rhomphaea fictilium", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25303. Accessed 4 August 2025.