Biology:Aphantochilus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Aphantochilus
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Aphantochilus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871[1]
Type species
A. rogersi
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
Species
  • O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Panama to Paraguay Canals, 1933Argentina
  • A. inermipes A. cambridgei
  • Simon, 1929Brazil A. rogersi
Synonyms[1]
  • Cryptoceroides Piza, 1937[2]

Aphantochilus is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.[3] (As of June 2020) it contains three species, found in Paraguay, Brazil , Argentina , and Panama: A. cambridgei, A. inermipes, and A. rogersi.[1] It is a senior synonym of Cryptoceroides.[1][2]

A. rogersi is polymorphic.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gen. Aphantochilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3587. Retrieved 2021-12-24. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gerschman de P., B. S.; Schiapelli, R. D. (1964). "Observaciones sobre el género Cryptoceroides Toledo-Piza, 1937 (Araneae-Aphantochilidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 24: 418. 
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 38: 728–747. 

Further reading

  • Teixeira, R. A.; Campos, L. A.; Lise, A. A. (2014). "Phylogeny of Aphantochilinae and Strophiinae sensu Simon (Araneae; Thomisidae)". Zoologica Scripta 43 (1): 65–78. doi:10.1111/zsc.12036. 
  • Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946). "Arañas del Paraguay". Notas del Museo de la Plata 11: 17–50. 
  • Piza Jr., S. de T. (1937). "Novas especies de aranhas myrmecomorphas do Brasil e considerações sobre o seu mimetismo". Revista do Museu Paulista 23: 307–319. 
  • Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1–374. doi:10.1206/821.1. 

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