Genus of spiders
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[update] 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
^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Aptostichus Simon, 1891" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-03 .
^ a b c 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
^ 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.
^ 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 .
^ Bond, Jason E.; et al. (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:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2 .