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Aphantochilus

SURESH P. BENJAMIN

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Aphantochilus

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Aphantochilus is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. it contains three species, found in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Panama: A. cambridgei, A. inermipes, and A. rogersi. It is a senior synonym of Cryptoceroides.

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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Aphantochilus, and connects out to Brazil, Argentina and Animalia.

Vinony files it under Ant mimics, Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and Thomisidae genera.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyThomisidae

Aphantochilus is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie van de Thomisidae (krabspinnen).

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
59
With media
6
Family
Thomisidae
Collections
MCZ, NRM, FMNH, NMSU, MNRJ, MPEG
Recorded in
Trinidad And Tobago, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Thomisidae
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Aphantochilus rogersi 93056208.jpg
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Aphantochilus is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. it contains three species, found in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Panama: A. cambridgei, A. inermipes, and A. rogersi. It is a senior synonym of Cryptoceroides.

A. rogersi is polymorphic.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aphantochilus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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