Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Galapaganus vandykei
escarabajo
Herbivore; arid zone; March, June, October; beating. This species is sympatric with G. caroli on Floreana and G. galapagoensis on San Cristóbal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Curculionoidea
Family
Curculionidae
Section
Naupactini
Genus
Galapaganus
Species
vandykei
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Española, Floreana, Gardner at Floreana, San Cristóbal
- Lanteri, A.A. (1992) Systematics, cladistics and biogeography of a new weevil genus, Galapaganus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Galápagos Islands, and Coasts of Ecuador and Perú. Transact. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 118(2): 227-267.
- Peck, S.B. (2006) The Beetles of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera) NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 314 pp.
- Sequeira, A.S. Lanteri, A.A., Scataglini, M.A., Confalonieri, V.A. & Farrell, B.D. (2000) Are flightless Galapaganus weevils older than the Galápagos islands they inhabit? Heredity 85: 20-29.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Galapaganus vandykei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5893. Accessed 2 November 2026.