Galapagos Species Database

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

Ischnothyreus peltifer (Simon, 1801)

Littoral zone, lower Arid zone, Bursera forest, Transition zone, Culture zone, Scalesia forest, Fern-sedge zone.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Superfamily
Dysderoidea

Family
Oonopidae

Genus
Ischnothyreus

Species
peltifer

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: Distribution: Cosmopolit. Galápagos distribution: Española, Isabela (Sierra Negra), Santa Cruz (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, Ischnothyreus peltifer", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6526. Accessed 1 November 2026.