Aptostichus
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Aptostichus
| Aptostichus | |
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| Aptostichus sp. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Subfamily: | Euctenizinae |
| Genus: | Aptostichus Simon, 1891 |
Aptostichus is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders found predominantly in southern California, USA.[1][2]
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Species
- A. angelinajoleae Bond 2008
- A. atomarius Simon 1891
- A. hesperus (Chamberlin, 1919)
- A. miwok Bond 2008
- A. simus Chamberlin 1917
- A. stanfordianus Smith 1908
- A. stephencolberti Bond 2008
Many Aptostichus species remain to be described.
Gallery
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Undefined female from California
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Trapdoor of Aptostichus
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References
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- ^ Bond, Jason E. & Brent D. Opell (2002). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 136 (3): 487–534. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x.
- ^ Bond, Jason E. & Amy K. Stockman (2008). "An Integrative Method for Delimiting Cohesion Species: Finding the Population-Species Interface in a Group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with Extreme Genetic Divergence and Geographic Structuring". Systematic Biology 57 (4): 628–646. doi:10.1080/10635150802302443. PMID 18686196.
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