Galapagos Species Database

Head: Frontoclypeus and vertex variable; from grayish-brown scales tipped with white, to nearly white; darker specimens with scales in area between dorsal and ventral margins of antennal sockets with greater area of white or pale grayish brown on distal end, forming a transverse color band across frontoclypeus; outer surface of labial palpus brown or grayish brown intermixed with pale grayish-brown scales tipped with white, and few white and brown scales, each segment white to near distal margin; inner surface white or mostly white intermixed with pale-brown scales; antennal scape and pedicel patterned as above, male first flagellomere dilated, forming a notch, flagellum grayish brown; proboscis pale grayish brown intermixed with white. Thorax: Tegula, brown or grayish brown (Adamski & Landry, 1997).

Blastobasis normalis is not endemic to the Galapagos Islands as once thought. This species is now known to occur on the Ecuadorian mainland as well (Adamski & Landry, 1997).