Apokayana is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders named after the Apo Kayan people of Indonesia and Malaysia. It was erected in 2018 for ten species transferred from Panjange after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[2][3]

Apokayana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Apokayana
Huber, 2018[1]
Type species
Panjange kapit
(Huber, 2016)
Species

10, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains ten species, all native to Borneo:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Apokayana Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  2. ^ Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
  3. ^ Huber, B. A.; Leh Moi Ung, C. (2016). "The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah". European Journal of Taxonomy (184): 1–32. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.184.

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