Apokayana is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders named after the Apo Kayan people of Indonesia and Malaysia. It was erected in 2018 for ten species transferred from Panjange after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[2][3]
| Apokayana | |
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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: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Apokayana Huber, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Panjange kapit (Huber, 2016)
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10, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2022[update] it contains ten species, all native to Borneo:[1]
- A. bako (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. iban (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. kapit (Huber, 2016) (type) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. kubah (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. niah (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. nigrifrons (Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983) – Indonesia (Borneo)
- A. pueh (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. sedgwicki (Deeleman-Reinhold & Platnick, 1986) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. seowi (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- A. tahai (Huber, 2011) – Indonesia (Borneo)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Apokayana Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Leh Moi Ung, C. (2016). "The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah". European Journal of Taxonomy (184): 1–32. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.184.
Further reading
edit- Huber, B. A. (2011). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 58: 1–509.
- Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Platnick, N. I. (1986). "A new Panjange from northern Borneo (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 94 (4): 559–561.
- Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Deeleman, P. R. (1983). "Studies on tropical Pholcidae I: Panjange, a new genus of Indo-australian leaf- and rock-dwelling pholcid spiders (Araneae)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 57: 121–130.
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