# Apolania

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Apolania segmentata
| authority = Simon, 1898
| parent_authority = [Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1898<ref name=NMBE />
| status = CR
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="IUCN">{{Cite journal| author=Gerlach, J. |title=''Apolania segmentata''| journal=[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/The_IUCN_Red_List_of_Threatened_Species)| volume=2014| page=e.T196153A2442793| publisher=[IUCN](/source/IUCN)| date=2014| url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/196153/0 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196153A2442793.en| accessdate=2018-01-05| doi-access=free}}</ref>
}}

'''''Apolania''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/genus) of [East Africa](/source/East_Africa)n [wandering spiders](/source/Ctenidae) containing the single species, '''''Apolania segmentata''''', first described from a male found by [Eugène Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon) in 1898.<ref name=Simo1898>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 29e Mémoire. XLVI. Arachnides recueillis en 1895 par M. le Dr A. Brauer (de l'Université de Marburg) aux îles Séchelles.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=370–388| volume=66}}</ref> No females have been described yet, and it has only been found in [Seychelles](/source/Seychelles).<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Apolania Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/614| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Critically endangered animals
Category:Ctenidae genera
Category:Endemic fauna of Seychelles
Category:IUCN Red List critically endangered species
Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Category:Spiders of Africa
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon

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