Apochinomma

Apochinomma
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
16, see text

Apochinomma is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by P. Pavesi in 1881. ^[2]

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]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.