Aptostichus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Aptostichus |image=Aptostichus_female.jpg |image_caption=''Aptostichus'' sp. |authority=Simon, 1891<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''A. atomarius'' |type_species_authority=Simon, 1891 |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=41, see text |synonyms=*''Actinoxia'' Simon, 1891<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|volume= 136|issue= 3|pages= 487–534|doi= 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x|doi-access= free}}; synonyms p. 518</ref> *''Nemesoides'' Chamberlin, 1919<ref name=Bond2002 /> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE /> }}

'''''Aptostichus''''' is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1891.<ref name=Simo1891>{{cite journal|last=Simon|first=E.|year=1891|title=Liste des espéces de la famille des Aviculariidae qui habitent le Mexique et l'Amérique du Nord.|journal=Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux|pages=307–326|volume=44}}</ref> They are found predominantly in southern California, United States.<ref name=Bond2002 /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bond|first1=Jason E.|first2=Amy K.|last2=Stockman|year=2008|title=An Integrative Method for Delimiting Cohesion Species: Finding the Population-Species Interface in a Group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with Extreme Genetic Divergence and Geographic Structuring|journal=Systematic Biology|volume=57|issue=4|pages=628–646|doi=10.1080/10635150802302443|pmid=18686196|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Behavior== Members of the North American genus, ''Aptostichus'', assemble tunnels with side chambers, but they do not close these chambers with additional trapdoors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bond|first1=Jason E.|display-authors=etal|year=2007|title=A Taxonomic Review of the Trapdoor Spider Genus ''Myrmekiaphila'' (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=3596|pages=1–30|doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3596[1:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2|url=https://zenodo.org/record/4712783|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Species== thumb|Trapdoor of an ''Aptostichus'' burrow thumb|''Aptostichus miwok'' male (top) and female {{as of|2019|05}} it contains forty-one species in the United States and Mexico:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Aptostichus Simon, 1891|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/857|doi=10.24436/2|last1=Gloor|first1=Daniel|last2=Nentwig|first2=Wolfgang|last3=Blick|first3=Theo|last4=Kropf|first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Aptostichus aguacaliente'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus angelinajolieae'' Bond, 2008 – USA *''Aptostichus anzaborrego'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus asmodaeus'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus atomarius'' Simon, 1891 (type) – USA *''Aptostichus barackobamai'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus bonoi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus cabrillo'' Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico *''Aptostichus cahuilla'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus cajalco'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus chavezi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus chemehuevi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus chiricahua'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus dantrippi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus derhamgiulianii'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus dorothealangeae'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus edwardabbeyi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus elisabethae'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus fisheri'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus fornax'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus hedinorum'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus hesperus'' (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA *''Aptostichus huntington'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus icenoglei'' Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico *''Aptostichus isabella'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus killerdana'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus lucerne'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus mikeradtkei'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus miwok'' Bond, 2008 – USA *''Aptostichus muiri'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus nateevansi'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus pennjillettei'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus sabinae'' Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2016 – Mexico *''Aptostichus sarlacc'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus satleri'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus serrano'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus sierra'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus simus'' Chamberlin, 1917 – USA, Mexico *''Aptostichus sinnombre'' Bond, 2012 – USA *''Aptostichus stanfordianus'' Smith, 1908 – USA *''Aptostichus stephencolberti'' Bond, 2008 – USA

==See also== *''Myrmekiaphila''

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Euctenizidae Category:Fauna of California Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Spiders of North America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon