Apomastus

Apomastus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Euctenizidae
Genus:	Apomastus Bond & Opell, 2002[1]
Type species
A. schlingeri Bond & Opell, 2002
Species
A. kristenae Bond, 2004 – USA A. schlingeri Bond & Opell, 2002 – USA

Apomastus is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Jason Bond & B. D. Opell in 2002.[2] As of May 2019^[update] it contains only two species, both found in the Los Angeles Basin of southern California:[3] A. kristenae and A. schlingeri.[1]

References

1. "Gen. Apomastus Bond & Opell, 2002". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
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.
3. "Genus Apomastus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-03.

External links

• Apomastus at BugGuide

Further reading

• Bond, J. E. (2004). "Systematics of the Californian euctenizine spider genus Apomastus (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae): the relationship between molecular and morphological taxonomy". Invertebrate Systematics. 18 (4): 361–376. doi:10.1071/IS04008.
• Bond, J.E.; et al. (2006). "Combining genetic and geospatial analyses to infer population extinction in mygalomorph spiders endemic to the Los Angeles region". Animal Conservation. 9 (2): 145–157. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00024.x.