Apochinomma
Genus of spiders
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Apochinomma is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Pietro Pavesi in 1881.[2]
| Apochinomma | |
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| Female A. elongatum | |
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| A. formicaeforme | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Apochinomma Pavesi, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. formicaeforme Pavesi, 1881 | |
| Species | |
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16, see text | |
Distribution
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[update] 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]