Biology:Apollophanes (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Apollophanes
Apollophanes margareta 1.jpg
A. margareta
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Apollophanes
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898[1]
Type species
A. punctipes
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891)
Species

14, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Horodromus Chamberlin, 1924[2]
  • Pelloctanes Schick, 1965[3]

Apollophanes is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.[4]

Species

(As of September 2022) it contains fourteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Panama:[1]

  • Apollophanes aztecanus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Mexico
  • Apollophanes caribaeus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Trinidad
  • Apollophanes crispus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Panama
  • Apollophanes erectus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Mexico
  • Apollophanes fitzroyi Baert, 2013 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Apollophanes gaucho Francisco, Ott & Teixeira, 2016 – Brazil
  • Apollophanes indistinctus Gertsch, 1933 – Mexico
  • Apollophanes lonesomegeorgei Baert, 2013 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Apollophanes longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
  • Apollophanes macropalpus (Paik, 1979) – Russia (West Siberia to Far East), Korea
  • Apollophanes margareta Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 – USA, Canada
  • Apollophanes punctatus (Bryant, 1948) – Hispaniola
  • Apollophanes punctipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) (type) – USA to Panama
  • Apollophanes texanus Banks, 1904 – USA, Mexico

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2251. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Schick, R. X. (1965). "The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 129: 86. 
  3. Dondale, C. D.; Redner, J. H. (1975). "Revision of the spider genus Apollophanes (Araneida: Thomisidae)". The Canadian Entomologist 107 (11): 1176. doi:10.4039/Ent1071175-11. 
  4. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q5401099 entry