Apochinomma

Apochinomma
Female A. elongatum
A. formicaeforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881
Type species
A. formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881
Species
16, see text

Apochinomma is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Pietro Pavesi in 1881.

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Asia and Brazil.

Name

The genus name is grammatically neutral, as it is coined after Corinnomma, which itself is a combination of Corinna and Ancient Greek ὄμμα (omma, "eye"), which is neutral in Greek.

Species

As of September 2025^[update] it contains eleven species:

• Apochinomma armatum Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
• Apochinomma constrictum Simon, 1896 – Brazil
• Apochinomma deceptum Haddad, 2013 – Mozambique, South Africa
• Apochinomma dolosum Simon, 1897 – India
• Apochinomma elongatum Haddad, 2013 – Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana
• Apochinomma formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881 (type) – West, Central, East, Southern Africa
• Apochinomma malkini Haddad, 2013 – Nigeria
• Apochinomma medog Zhang & Zhang, 2023 – China
• Apochinomma nitidum (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Sulawesi)
• Apochinomma parvum Haddad, 2013 – Guinea
• Apochinomma pyriforme (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil

Several species were transferred to other genera, such as Mazax, Myrmecotypus and Castianeira.

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