''Aphantaulax'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ground spiders that was first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1878.
Species
it contains seventeen species:
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Aphantaulax albini''
(Audouin, 1826) (
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) – Egypt, Ethiopia
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Aphantaulax australis''
Simon, 1893 – South Africa
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Aphantaulax cincta''
( L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Turkey, North Africa, Israel
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Aphantaulax ensifera''
Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
*''
Aphantaulax fasciata''
Kulczyński, 1911 – Thailand, Indonesia (Java, Lombok)
*''
Aphantaulax flavida''
Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
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Aphantaulax inornata''
Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
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Aphantaulax katangae''
(Giltay, 1935) – Congo
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Aphantaulax rostrata''
Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2013 – Thailand
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Aphantaulax scotophaea''
Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
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Aphantaulax signicollis''
Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
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Aphantaulax stationis''
Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
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Aphantaulax trifasciata''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, China, Japan
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Aphantaulax t. trimaculata''
Simon, 1878 – France
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Aphantaulax univittata''
Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
*''
Aphantaulax voiensis''
Berland Berland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*André Berland (1940–2025), French historian and biographer
*Bjørn Berland (born 1977), Norwegian footballer
*Eliezer Berland (born 1937), Israeli Breslov rabbi
*François Berléan ...
, 1920 – East Africa
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Aphantaulax zonata''
Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
References
Gnaphosidae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Gnaphosidae
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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