{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Apomastus | authority = Bond & Opell, 2002<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''A. schlingeri'' | type_species_authority = Bond & Opell, 2002 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | A. kristenae|<small>Bond, 2004</small> – USA | A. schlingeri|<small>Bond & Opell, 2002</small> – USA}} }}
'''''Apomastus''''' is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Jason Bond & B. D. Opell in 2002.<ref name=Bond2002>{{cite journal| last1=Bond| first1=J. E.| last2=Opell| first2=B. D.| year=2002| title=Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae).| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| pages=487–534| volume=136| issue=3| doi=10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x| doi-access=free}}</ref> {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only two species, both found in the Los Angeles Basin of southern California:<ref name=bugguide>{{cite web| title=Genus Apomastus| publisher=BugGuide| accessdate=2019-06-03| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/179938}}</ref> ''A. kristenae'' and ''A. schlingeri''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Apomastus Bond & Opell, 2002| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-06-03| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/856| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://bugguide.net/node/view/179938 Apomastus] at BugGuide
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Bond| first=J. E.| year=2004| title=Systematics of the Californian euctenizine spider genus Apomastus (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae): the relationship between molecular and morphological taxonomy| journal=Invertebrate Systematics| volume=18| issue=4| pages=361–376| doi=10.1071/IS04008| url=https://zenodo.org/record/3236882}} *{{cite journal| last1=Bond| first1=J.E.| display-authors=etal| year=2006| title=Combining genetic and geospatial analyses to infer population extinction in mygalomorph spiders endemic to the Los Angeles region| journal=Animal Conservation| volume=9| issue=2| pages=145–157| doi=10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00024.x| bibcode=2006AnCon...9..145B}}
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Category:Euctenizidae Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Spiders of the United States
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