Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Stomion bauri Linell, 1898, Stomion laevigatum santacrucensis Franz, 1985, fide Peck (2006)

Origin: Endemic

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

Distribution: Caamaño, Cowley, Daphne Major, Fernandina, Isabela, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago

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• Blair, K.G. (1928) Coleoptera (Heteromera, Teredilia, Malacodermata, and Bruchidae) from the Galapagos Islands, collected on the 'St. George' Expedition, 1924. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 1: 671-680.
• Desender, K. Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P. & Verdyck P. (1990) Conservation on Volcan Alcedo (Galapagos): terrestrial invertebrates and the impact of introduced feral goats. Biological Conservation 87: 303-310.
• Finston, T.L. Peck S.B. (1995) Population structure and gene flow in Stomion: a species swarm of flightless beetles of the Galápagos islands. Heredity 75: 390-397.
• Finston, T.L. Peck, S.B. (1997) Genetic differentiation and speciation in Stomion (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): flightless beetles of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 61: 183-200.
• Finston, T.L. Peck, P.B. & Perry, R.B. (1997) Population density and dispersal ability in Darwin's darklings: fligtless beetles of the Galapagos island. Pan-pacific Entomologist 73(2): 110-121.
• Finston, T.L. Peck, S.B. (2004) Speciation in Darwin´s darklings: taxonomy and evolution of Stomion beetles in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 141: 135-152.
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• Mutchler, A.J. (1925) Coleoptera. From the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(20): 219-240.
• Parkin, P. Parkin D.T., Ewing, A.W. & Ford, H.A. (1972) A report on the arthropods collected by the Edinburgh University Galapagos Islands Expedition, 1968. The Pan-pacific Entomologist 48: 100-107.
• 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.