Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pterostichus calathoides
escarabajo
Scavenger?; evergreen shrub, humid forest and pampa zones; January-June; sifted from moss, litter, horse manure, and from under stones in the highlands.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Adephaga
Family
Carabidae
Section
Pterostichini
Genus
Pterostichus
Species
calathoides
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Ferronia calathoides G.R. Waterhouse, 1845, Poecilus calathoides (G.R. Waterhouse, 1845), fide Desender et al. (1989)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: San Cristóbal
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- Desender, K. Baert, L. & Maelfait, J.-P. (1990) Carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Galápagos (Ecuador) collected during the Belgian 1988-expedition. Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Entomologie 60: 49-54.
- Desender, K. Baert, L. & Maelfait, J.P. (1988) Carabid Beetles of Galápagos. Unpublished Manuscript.
- Franz, H. (1985) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Koleopterenfauna der Galapagos-Inseln. Österr. Akad. Wissensch. Mathem.-naturw. Kl., Abt. I, 194(1-5): 73-124.
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- Mutchler, A.J. (1925) Coleoptera. From the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(20): 219-240.
- 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.
- Van Dyke, E.C. (1953) The Coleoptera of the Galapagos Islands. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 22: 1-181.
- Waterhouse, G.R. (1845) Descriptions of coleopterous insects collected by Charles Darwin, Esq., in the Galapagos Islands. Ann. Nat. Hist. 16: 19-41.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pterostichus calathoides", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6862. Accessed 8 June 2026.