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South American Ant-mimicking Crab Spiders
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South American Ant-mimicking Crab Spiders

Aphantochilus

Aphantochilus is a small genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders from Central and South America.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Turtle Ant-mimicking Crab Spider

speciesAphantochilus rogersi

Aphantochilus inermipes

speciesAphantochilus inermipes

Aphantochilus rainbow

speciesAphantochilus rainbow

Aphantochilus cambridgei

speciesAphantochilus cambridgei

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 372518.