''Apokayana'' is a
genus
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of southeast Asian
cellar spiders named after the
Apo Kayan people
The Apo Kayan people are one of the Dayak people groups that are spread throughout Sarawak of Malaysia, North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan of Indonesia. The earliest Apo Kayan people are from the riverside of the Kayan River, Bulungan Regen ...
of Indonesia and Malaysia. It was erected in 2018 for ten species transferred from ''
Panjange'' after a
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study of Pholcidae.
Species
it contains ten species, all native to Borneo:
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A. bako''
(Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. iban''
(Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. kapit''
(Huber, 2016) (
type
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) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. kubah''
(Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. niah''
(Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. nigrifrons''
(Deeleman-Reinhold
Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (23 November 1930 – 26 March 2025) was a Dutch arachnologist. She specialized in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of ...
& Deeleman, 1983) – Indonesia (Borneo)
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A. pueh''
(Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. sedgwicki''
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Platnick, 1986) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. seowi''
(Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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A. tahai''
(Huber, 2011) – Indonesia (Borneo)
See also
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Panjange''
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Pholcus
''Pholcus'' is a genus of spiders of long-bodied cellar spider and allies in the family Pholcidae, with 375 described species as of January 2023.
It includes the cellar spider '' P. phalangioides'', often called the "daddy longlegs". This may ca ...
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List of Pholcidae species
This page lists all described genera and species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reprod ...
References
Further reading
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Pholcidae genera
Spiders of Asia
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