{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Aphantochilus |image=Aphantochilus rogersi 93056145.jpg | authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''A. rogersi'' | type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | ''A. cambridgei''|<small>Canals, 1933</small> – Argentina | ''A. inermipes''|<small>Simon, 1929</small> – Brazil | ''A. rogersi''|<small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871</small> – Panama to Paraguay}} | synonyms = *''Cryptoceroides'' <small>Piza, 1937</small><ref name=Gers1964>{{cite journal| last1=Gerschman de P.| first1=B. S.| last2=Schiapelli| first2=R. D.| year=1964| title=Observaciones sobre el género Cryptoceroides Toledo-Piza, 1937 (Araneae-Aphantochilidae)| journal=Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales| volume=24| page=418}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Aphantochilus''''' is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.<ref name=Pick1871>{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1871| title=On some new genera and species of Araneida| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=728–747| volume=38| author-link=Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}}</ref> {{as of|2020|06}} it contains three species, found in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Panama: ''A. cambridgei'', ''A. inermipes'', and ''A. rogersi''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal |title=Gen. ''Aphantochilus'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 |website=World Spider Catalog Version |accessdate=2021-12-24 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3587 |doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> It is a senior synonym of ''Cryptoceroides''.<ref name=NMBE /><ref name=Gers1964 />
''A. rogersi'' is polymorphic.
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last1=Teixeira| first1=R. A.| last2=Campos| first2=L. A.| last3=Lise| first3=A. A.| year=2014| title=Phylogeny of Aphantochilinae and Strophiinae ''sensu'' Simon (Araneae; Thomisidae)| journal=Zoologica Scripta| pages=65–78| volume=43| issue=1| doi=10.1111/zsc.12036}} *{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1946| title=Arañas del Paraguay| journal=Notas del Museo de la Plata| pages=17–50| volume=11}} *{{cite journal| last=Piza Jr.| first=S. de T.| year=1937| title=Novas especies de aranhas myrmecomorphas do Brasil e considerações sobre o seu mimetismo| journal=Revista do Museu Paulista| pages=307–319| volume=23}} *{{cite journal| last=Ramírez| first=M. J.| year=2014| title=The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| pages=1–374| volume=390| doi=10.1206/821.1| hdl=11336/18066| s2cid=86146467| hdl-access=free}}
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Category:Thomisidae genera Category:Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Category:Ant mimics
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