Octanapis is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick & Raymond Robert Forster in 1989.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1]

Octanapis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anapidae
Genus: Octanapis
Platnick & Forster, 1989[1]
Type species
O. cann
Platnick & Forster, 1989
Species
  • O. cann Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
  • O. octocula (Forster, 1959) – Australia (Queensland)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Octanapis Platnick & Forster, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I.; Forster, R. R. (1989). "A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 190: 1–139.