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Aymaria conica (Banks, 1902)

Littoral zone, Caves, lower Arid zone, Transition zone, Bursera forest, Culture zone, Miconia zone, Scalesia forest, Fern-sedge zone ; summit Arid zone (xerophilic Fern-sedge zone and Opuntia zone) above inversion zone on Fernandina and the northern Isabela volcanoes Alcedo, Darwin and Wolf.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Superfamily
Pholcoidea

Family
Pholcidae

Genus
Aymaria

Species
conica

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Coryssocnemis conica (Banks, 1902)

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Champion, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Cerro Azul, Sierra Negra, V. Darwin, V. Wolf), N. Plaza, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Seymour Norte, S. Plaza (Baert et al., 2023).

References

  • 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.
  • Baert, L.L. Maelfait, J.-P. (2000) Check List of the Described Spider Species of the Galápagos Archipelago (Araneae). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 70: 243-245.
  • Baert, L.L. Malfait, J.-P., Hendrickx, F. & Desender, K. (2008) Distribution and Habitat Preference of the Spiders (Araneae) of Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 78: 39-111.
  • 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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Aymaria conica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5582. Accessed 1 November 2026.