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Genus Apollophanes

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Olios maybe? - Apollophanes margareta - male Philodromus praelustris? - Apollophanes margareta WBC spider, frontal view - Apollophanes Running Crab Spider - Apollophanes margareta - male running crab spider? - Apollophanes running crab spider? - Apollophanes running crab spider - Apollophanes margareta running crab spider - Apollophanes margareta
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Philodromidae (Running Crab Spiders)
Genus Apollophanes
Numbers
12 species described in the genus; three documented from the US (margareta, punctipes, and texanus), 7 from Mexico and Central America, and two from Asia
Food
Ambush predators; webs not used in prey capture
Internet References
Wikipedia article

The Nearctic Spider Database
Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 21 August, 2008 - 9:05am

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