Apopyllus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & M. U. Shadab in 1984.[2]
| Apopyllus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae |
| Genus: | Apopyllus Platnick & Shadab, 1984[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. silvestrii (Simon, 1905)
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| Species | |
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10, see text | |
Species edit
As of May 2019[update] it contains ten species:[1]
- Apopyllus aeolicus Azevedo, Ott, Griswold & Santos, 2016 – Brazil
- Apopyllus atlanticus Azevedo, Ott, Griswold & Santos, 2016 – Brazil
- Apopyllus centralis Azevedo, Ott, Griswold & Santos, 2016 – Brazil
- Apopyllus gandarela Azevedo, Ott, Griswold & Santos, 2016 – Brazil
- Apopyllus huanuco Platnick & Shadab, 1984 – Peru
- Apopyllus ivieorum Platnick & Shadab, 1984 – Mexico
- Apopyllus malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1984 – Chile
- Apopyllus now Platnick & Shadab, 1984 – Curaçao, Colombia
- Apopyllus silvestrii (Simon, 1905) (type) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile
- Apopyllus suavis (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
References edit
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Apopyllus Platnick & Shadab, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1984). "A revision of the Neotropical spiders of the new genus Apopyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates (2788): 1–9.