Biology:Aptostichus

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Aptostichus
Aptostichus female.jpg
Aptostichus sp.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euctenizidae
Genus: Aptostichus
Simon, 1891[1]
Type species
A. atomarius
Simon, 1891
Species

41, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Actinoxia Simon, 1891[2]
  • Nemesoides Chamberlin, 1919[2]

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]

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Aptostichus Simon, 1891. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/857. Retrieved 2019-06-03. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 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. (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:ATROTT2.0.CO;2]. https://zenodo.org/record/4712783. 

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