Aponetius

Aponetius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Aponetius Kamura, 2020[1]
Type species
Zelotes gladius (Kamura, 1999)
Species
5, see text

Aponetius is a genus of east Asian ground spiders. It was first described by T. Kamura in 2020,[2] and it has only been found in Japan.[1] The type species, Aponetius gladius, was originally described under the name "Zelotes gladius".[3]

Species

As of December 2021^[update] it contains five species:[1]

• A. flexuosus (Kamura, 1999) – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• A. gladius (Kamura, 1999) (type) – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• A. ogatai Kamura, 2020 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• A. ryukyuensis (Kamura, 1999) – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• A. watarii Kamura, 2020 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

See also

• Zelotes
• List of Gnaphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Aponetius Kamura, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
2. Kamura, T. (2020). "A new genus of the subfamily Zelotinae (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), with descriptions of two new species from Amami-Ōshima Island, southwest Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 69 (1): 1–9. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.1. S2CID 225809649.
3. Kamura, T. (1999). "Spiders of the genus Zelotes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Ryukyu Islands, southwest Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 48 (2): 79–91. doi:10.2476/asjaa.48.79.

Further reading

• Kamura, T. (2003). "Taxonomic notes on some species of the genus Zelotes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Korea and Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 52: 25–30. doi:10.2476/asjaa.52.25.