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| Female A. elongatum | |
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| A. formicaeforme | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Apochinomma Pavesi, 18811 |
| Type species | |
| A. formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881
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Apochinomma is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Pietro Pavesi in 1881.2
Distribution
Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Asia and Brazil.1
Name
The genus name is grammatically neutral, as it is coined after Corinnomma, which itself is a combination of Corinna and Ancient Greek ὄμμα (omma, "eye"), which is neutral in Greek.3
Species
As of September 2025 it contains eleven species:1
- Apochinomma armatum Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
- Apochinomma constrictum Simon, 1896 – Brazil
- Apochinomma deceptum Haddad, 2013 – Mozambique, South Africa
- Apochinomma dolosum Simon, 1897 – India
- Apochinomma elongatum Haddad, 2013 – Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana
- Apochinomma formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881 (type) – West, Central, East, Southern Africa
- Apochinomma malkini Haddad, 2013 – Nigeria
- Apochinomma medog Zhang & Zhang, 2023 – China
- Apochinomma nitidum (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Sulawesi)
- Apochinomma parvum Haddad, 2013 – Guinea
- Apochinomma pyriforme (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
Several species were transferred to other genera, such as Mazax, Myrmecotypus and Castianeira.1
References
References
- Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian. "Gen. Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
- Pavesi, P. (1881). "Studi sugli Aracnidi africani. II. Aracnidi d'Inhambane raccolti da Carlo Fornasini e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna del Mozambico". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 16: 536–560.
- Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.