Apollophanes is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.[4]

Apollophanes
A. margareta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Apollophanes
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898[1]
Type species
A. punctipes
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891)
Species

14, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of September 2022 it contains fourteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Panama:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Schick, R. X. (1965). "The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 129: 86.
  3. ^ Dondale, C. D.; Redner, J. H. (1975). "Revision of the spider genus Apollophanes (Araneida: Thomisidae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 107 (11): 1176. doi:10.4039/Ent1071175-11. S2CID 86155160.
  4. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology

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