Apollophanes (spider)

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

Apollophanes
A. margareta
Scientific classification
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

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains fifteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Panama:[1]

  • Apollophanes aztecanus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Mexico
  • Apollophanes bangalores Tikader, 1963 – India
  • 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. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. 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
  • Adams, Richard J.; Manolis, Timothy D. (2014). Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520276611.
  • Bradley, Richard A. (2012). Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520274884.
  • Dean, D.A. (2016). "Catalogue of Texas spiders". ZooKeys (570): 1–703. doi:10.3897/zookeys.570.6095. PMC 4829797. PMID 27103878.
  • Foelix, Rainer F. (2010). Biology of Spiders (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199734825.
  • Griswold, Charles E.; Audisio, Tracy; Ledford, Joel M. (2012). "An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family)". ZooKeys (215): 77–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.215.3547. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3428790. PMID 22936872.
  • Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640.
  • Muster, C. (2009). "The Ebo-like running crab spiders in the Old World (Araneae, Philodromidae)". ZooKeys (16): 47–73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.16.230.
  • Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V., eds. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. ISBN 978-0977143900.
  • Wheeler, W.C.; Coddington, J.A.; Crowley, L.M.; Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2016). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.


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