Apolania

Apolania is a monotypic genus of East African wandering spiders containing the single species, Apolania segmentata, first described from a male found by Eugène Simon in 1898.[3] No females have been described yet, and it has only been found in Seychelles.[2]

Apolania

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Apolania
Simon, 1898[2]
Species:
A. segmentata
Binomial name
Apolania segmentata
Simon, 1898

References

  1. Gerlach, J. (2014). "Apolania segmentata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T196153A2442793. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196153A2442793.en. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  2. "Gen. Apolania Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  3. Simon, E. (1898). "Etudes arachnologiques. 29e Mémoire. XLVI. Arachnides recueillis en 1895 par M. le Dr A. Brauer (de l'Université de Marburg) aux îles Séchelles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 66: 370–388.


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