Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pikelinia fasciata
Abundant in Littoral and coastal Arid zone (low Arid zone and Bursera forest). It was found in a cave on Sierra Negra.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Filistatoidea
Family
Filistatidae
Genus
Pikelinia
Species
fasciata
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Champion, Daphne, Española, Floreana, Gardner nr Española, Genovesa, Isabela (V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Wolf, V. Ecuador), Marchena, Pinta, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Wolf.
- 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. (1986) Spiders from the Galápagos Islands. Part III. Miscellaneous Families. Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 7(2): 52-56.
- 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.
- Villarreal, O. Delgado-Santa, L., González-Gómez, J. C., Rodríguez-Castro, G. A., Román, A. C., Agudelo, E., & García, L. F. (2026) Another web in the wall: A new Pikelinia Mello-Leitão, 1946 (Araneae, Filistatidae) from Colombia, with notes on its diet and description of the female genitalia of P. fasciata (Banks, 1902). Zoosystematics and Evolution 102(1): 357-366. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.102.175423
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pikelinia fasciata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6809. Accessed 3 November 2026.