Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Aristotelia naxia
Polilla gelechiide, Twirler moth-gelechiid moth
Fore-wings grey irrorated whit,e ; markings blackish edged white suffusion; a slender entire oblique transverse streak at Q; an oblique fasciate streak from costa at 6 to fold, from its apex a lobe projecting obliquely upward to middle of disc, tipped by black first discal stigma, this streak terminated beneath by a brownish-ochreous thick longitudinal subdorsal streak nearly reaching postmedian fascia; a transverse fascia at 3, narrowed in disc and interrupted with brownish-ochreous beneath black second discal stigma ; an inwards-oblique triangular blotch from costa before apex. Hind-wings and cilia grey; an expansible grey-whitish hairpencil from base of costa (Landry & Roque, 2010).
Found all months of the year except June and August, mostly at low elevations.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Gelechioidea
Family
Gelechiidae
Genus
Aristotelia
Species
naxia
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena, Pinta, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago (Landry, & Roque-Albelo, 2010), Rábida, Seymour Norte (Roque, 2006),
- Landry, B. Roque-Albelo, L. (2010) The Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, a taxonomic revision. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117(4): 697-770.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- Meyrick, E. (1926) On Micro-Lepidoptera from the Galapagos Islands and Rapa. Transactions Royal Entomological Society of London 2: 269-278.
- 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.
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
- Roque-Albelo, L. (2006) Diversity and ecology of the Lepidoptera in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
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"Galapagos Species Database, Aristotelia naxia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7099. Accessed 31 October 2026.