Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878

It occurs principally (except on Fernandina) on the inhabited islands (Floreana, Sierra Negra, San Cristóbal and Santa Cruz) where it has its greatest abundance in the Culture zone (orchards, plantations) and in the Transition zone. On Santa Cruz it occurs in all vegetation types till the top of the island but with its highest abundance in the Culture zone and coastal Arid zone.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Superfamily
Corinnoidea

Family
Corinnidae

Genus
Creugas

Species
gulosus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Corinna cetrata (Simon, 1888); Syn.: Corinna cetrata, fide Baert et al. (2008)

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Volcán Sierra Negra), San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago, Santa Fe, Wolf.

References

  • 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.
  • 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, Creugas gulosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5753. Accessed 3 May 2025.