Galapagos Species Database
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Galapagoliarus galapagensis
Planthoppers
On Scalesia affinis subsp. gummifera.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Suborder
Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily
Fulgoroidea
Family
Cixiidae
Section
Pentastirini
Genus
Galapagoliarus
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Oliarus galapagensis Fennah, 1967; Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Isabela
- Hendrix, S. V. Bartlett, C. R. (2025) Reclassification of the Planthopper Genus Melanoliarus Fennah, 1945 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), primarily North of Mexico, with Notes on American Pentastirini. Zootaxa 5619 (1): 001–087
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
- Van Duzee, E.P. (1933) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932 No. 4 Characters of Twenty-four new species of Hemiptera from the Galapagos Islands and the coast and Islands of Central America and Mexico. Proceedings of the Califonia Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 21(4): 25-40.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Galapagoliarus galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25617. Accessed 31 October 2026.