Aptostichus

<i>Aptostichus</i>

Aptostichus

Genus of spiders

Aptostichus is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1891.[3] They are found predominantly in southern California, United States.[2][4]

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Behavior

Members of the North American genus, Aptostichus, assemble tunnels with side chambers, but they do not close these chambers with additional trapdoors.[5]

Species

Trapdoor of an Aptostichus burrow
Aptostichus miwok male (top) and female

As of May 2019 it contains forty-one species in the United States and Mexico:[1]

  • Aptostichus aguacaliente Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus angelinajolieae Bond, 2008 – USA
  • Aptostichus anzaborrego Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus asmodaeus Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus atomarius Simon, 1891 (type) – USA
  • Aptostichus barackobamai Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus bonoi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus cabrillo Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico
  • Aptostichus cahuilla Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus cajalco Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus chavezi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus chemehuevi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus chiricahua Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus dantrippi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus derhamgiulianii Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus dorothealangeae Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus edwardabbeyi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus elisabethae Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus fisheri Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus fornax Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus hedinorum Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus hesperus (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA
  • Aptostichus huntington Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus icenoglei Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico
  • Aptostichus isabella Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus killerdana Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus lucerne Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus mikeradtkei Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus miwok Bond, 2008 – USA
  • Aptostichus muiri Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus nateevansi Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus pennjillettei Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus sabinae Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2016 – Mexico
  • Aptostichus sarlacc Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus satleri Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus serrano Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus sierra Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus simus Chamberlin, 1917 – USA, Mexico
  • Aptostichus sinnombre Bond, 2012 – USA
  • Aptostichus stanfordianus Smith, 1908 – USA
  • Aptostichus stephencolberti Bond, 2008 – USA

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Aptostichus Simon, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. [2]
    Bond, J.E.; Opell, B.D. (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 Linnean Society. 136 (3): 487–534. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x.; synonyms p. 518
  3. [3]
    Simon, E. (1891). "Liste des espéces de la famille des Aviculariidae qui habitent le Mexique et l'Amérique du Nord". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 44: 307–326.
  4. [4]
    Bond, Jason E.; Stockman, Amy K. (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.
  5. [5]
    Bond, Jason E.; et al. (2007). "A Taxonomic Review of the Trapdoor Spider Genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)". American Museum Novitates. 3596: 1–30. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3596[1:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2.


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