''Amapalea'' is a

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

of spiders in the family

Trechaleidae Trechaleidae (''tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee'') is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. It includes about 140 described species in 16 genera. They all live in Central and South America except for '' Shinobius orienta ...

. It was first described by Silva & Lise in 2006. , it contains only one species, ''Amapalea brasiliana'' found in Brazil.

References

Trechaleidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Brazil {{Trechaleidae-stub