''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
''Panjange'' is a genus of leaf-dwelling spiders in the family Pholcidae, widely distributed in the islands of Southeast Asia from Borneo and the Philippines to northern Australia. ''Panjange'' spiders exhibit some of the most extraordinary morp ...
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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 (born 23 November 1930) is a Dutch arachnologist. She specializes in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 Sou ...
& 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
''Panjange'' is a genus of leaf-dwelling spiders in the family Pholcidae, widely distributed in the islands of Southeast Asia from Borneo and the Philippines to northern Australia. ''Panjange'' spiders exhibit some of the most extraordinary morp ...
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Pholcus''
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List of Pholcidae species
References
Further reading
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Pholcidae genera
Spiders of Asia
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