# Apomastus

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Apomastus
| authority = [Bond](/source/Jason_Bond) & Opell, 2002<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[A. schlingeri](/source/Apomastus_schlingeri)''
| type_species_authority = Bond & Opell, 2002
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
| [A. kristenae](/source/Apomastus_kristenae)|<small>Bond, 2004</small> – USA
| [A. schlingeri](/source/Apomastus_schlingeri)|<small>Bond & Opell, 2002</small> – USA}}
}}

'''''Apomastus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [North America](/source/North_America)n [mygalomorph](/source/Mygalomorphae) spiders in the family [Euctenizidae](/source/Euctenizidae), and was first described by [Jason Bond](/source/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](/source/Los_Angeles_Basin) of southern [California](/source/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==
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==External links==
*[https://bugguide.net/node/view/179938 Apomastus] at [BugGuide](/source/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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