Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Galagete protozona
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Gelechioidea
Family
Autostichidae
Genus
Galagete
Species
protozona
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Santa Fé, Seymour Norte (Landry, 2002; Roque, 2006).
- Landry, B. (2002) Galagete, a new genus of Autostichidae representing the first case of an extensive radiation of endemic Lepidoptera in the Galápagos Islands. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109(4): 813-868.
- Meyrick, E. (1926) On micro‐lepidoptera from the Galapagos Islands and rapa Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 74(2), 269-278.
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Galagete protozona", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7197. Accessed 5 June 2026.