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REVISION OF THE SPIDER GENUS APOLLOPHANES (ARANEIDA: THOMISIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. D. Dondale  and
J. H. Redner
C. D. Dondale
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
J. H. Redner
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge 1898 (= Pelloctanes Schick 1965, syn. n.) includes 10 species, namely, A. punctipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge) 1891 [= A. distinctus (O. Pickard-Cambridge) 1899, syn. n. = A. maculatipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge) 1893, syn. n. = A. arizonensis Gertsch 1933, syn. n. = A. mexicanus Gertsch 1933, syn. n. = A. similalis Gertsch 1933, syn. n.], A. texanus Banks 1904 [= A. francesca Lowrie and Gertsch 1955, syn. n.], A. longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge) 1896, comb, n., A. margareta Lowrie and Gertsch 1955, A. caribaeus sp. n., A. punctatus (Bryant) 1948, comb, n., A. indistinctus Gertsch 1933, A crispus sp. n., A. erectus sp. n., and A. aztecanus sp. n. A. bryanti Gertsch 1933 and A. paraguensis Gertsch 1933 from South America are placed in the genus Cleocnemis Simon. Definitions, diagnoses, illustrations, range maps, and a key to species are provided.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 107 , Issue 11 , November 1975 , pp. 1175 - 1192
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1975

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