Aptostichus

Aptostichus
Aptostichus sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euctenizidae
Genus: Aptostichus
Simon, 1891
Type species
A. atomarius
Simon, 1891
Species

41, see text

Synonyms

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

Behavior

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

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:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.