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| Apochinomma | |
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| Female A. elongatum | |
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| A. formicaeforme | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881 | |
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Apochinomma is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Pietro Pavesi in 1881.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Asia and Brazil.[1]
Name
[edit]The genus name is grammatically neutral, as it is coined after Corinnomma, which itself is a combination of Corinna and Ancient Greek ὄμμα (omma, "eye"), which is neutral in Greek.[3]
Species
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As of September 2025[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- Apochinomma armatum Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
- Apochinomma constrictum Simon, 1896 – Brazil
- Apochinomma deceptum Haddad, 2013 – Mozambique, South Africa
- Apochinomma dolosum Simon, 1897 – India
- Apochinomma elongatum Haddad, 2013 – Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana
- Apochinomma formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881 (type) – West, Central, East, Southern Africa
- Apochinomma malkini Haddad, 2013 – Nigeria
- Apochinomma medog Zhang & Zhang, 2023 – China
- Apochinomma nitidum (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Sulawesi)
- Apochinomma parvum Haddad, 2013 – Guinea
- Apochinomma pyriforme (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
Several species were transferred to other genera, such as Mazax, Myrmecotypus and Castianeira.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian. "Gen. Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
- ↑ Pavesi, P. (1881). "Studi sugli Aracnidi africani. II. Aracnidi d'Inhambane raccolti da Carlo Fornasini e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna del Mozambico". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 16: 536–560.
- ↑ Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.