Apollophanes (spider) explained

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

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Panama:^[1]

• Apollophanes aztecanus Dondale & Redner, 1975 – Mexico
• 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

• List of Philodromidae species

Further reading

• Book: 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. 978-0520276611.
• Book: Bradley . Richard A.. 2012. Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. 978-0520274884.
• Dean . D.A.. 2016. Catalogue of Texas spiders. ZooKeys. 570. 1–703. 10.3897/zookeys.570.6095. 27103878. 4829797. 2016ZooK..570....1D. free.
• Book: Foelix . Rainer F.. 2010. Biology of Spiders. 3rd. Oxford University Press. 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. 1313-2989. 3428790. 22936872. 10.3897/zookeys.215.3547. 2012ZooK..215...77G. free.
• Book: Jackman . John A.. 2002. A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. 978-0877192640.
• Muster . C.. 2009. The Ebo-like running crab spiders in the Old World (Araneae, Philodromidae). ZooKeys. 16. 47–73. 10.3897/zookeys.16.230. 2009ZooK...16...47M. free.
• Book: Ubick . D.. Paquin . P.. Cushing . P.E.. Roth . V.. 2005. Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. 978-0977143900.
• Wheeler . W.C.. Coddington . J.A.. Crowley . L.M.. Dimitrov . D.. Goloboff . P.A.. Griswold . C.E.. Hormiga . G.. Prendini . L.. Ramírez . M.J.. Sierwald . P.. Almeida-Silva . L.. Alvarez-Padilla . F.. Arnedo . M.A.. Benavides Silva . L.R.. Benjamin . S.P.. Bond . J.E.. Grismado . C.J.. Hasan . E.. Hedin . M.. Izquierdo . M.A.. Labarque . F.M.. Ledford . J.. Lopardo . L.. Maddison . W.P.. Miller . J.A.. Piacentini . L.N.. Platnick . N.I.. Polotow . D.. Silva-Dávila . D.. Scharff . N.. Szűts . T.. Ubick . D.. Vink . C.J.. Wood . H.M.. Zhang . J.. 4. 2016. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics . 33 . 6 . 576–616. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. 35535038.

Notes and References

1. Gen. Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.