Aponetius

Aponetius
Male A. flexuosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Aponetius
Kamura, 2020
Type species
Zelotes gladius
(Kamura, 1999)
Species

5, see text

Aponetius is a genus of east Asian ground spiders. It was first described by T. Kamura in 2020, and it has only been found in Japan. The type species, Aponetius gladius, was originally described under the name "Zelotes gladius".

Species

As of December 2021 it contains five species:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Aponetius Kamura, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  2. ↑ Kamura, T. (2020). "A new genus of the subfamily Zelotinae (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), with descriptions of two new species from Amami-Ōshima Island, southwest Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 69 (1): 1–9. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.1. S2CID 225809649.
  3. ↑ Kamura, T. (1999). "Spiders of the genus Zelotes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Ryukyu Islands, southwest Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 48 (2): 79–91. doi:10.2476/asjaa.48.79.

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