Galvis William, Rheims Cristina Anne
Laboratorio de Aracnología & Miriapodología (LAM-UN), Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia..
Zootaxa. 2018 Nov 13;4521(2):294-300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.11.
The huntsman spider genus Anaptomecus was proposed by Simon (1903) to include the type species, A. longiventris Simon, 1903, described from a juvenile male collected in Cayambé (San Pedro de Cayambé), Pichincha, Ecuador. Mello-Leitão (1940) described a second species, A. rufescens, from a female collected in Essequibo River, Guyana. The genus remained unstudied until the early 2000's when Jäger et al. (2009) described the adult male and female of A. longiventris and transferred A. rufescens to Sparianthina Banks, 1929. In this same paper, the authors described A. temii Jäger, Rheims Labarque, 2009, based on a male from Panama, and A. levyi Jäger, Rheims Labarque, 2009, based on a female from Colombia. A few years later, Guala et al. (2012), increased the number of known species with the descriptions of A. paru Guala, Labarque Rheims, 2012 and A. suni Guala, Labarque Rheims, 2012, both based on males and females from Ecuador. Thus, Anaptomecus currently includes five species and is distributed in southern Central and northern South America, from Costa Rica to central Ecuador (Puerto Napo, Napo) (World Spider Catalog 2018).
猎蛛属Anaptomecus由西蒙（1903年）提出，包含模式种长腹猎蛛A. longiventris Simon，1903年，该种依据一只采自厄瓜多尔皮钦查省卡扬贝（圣佩德罗德卡扬贝）的幼年雄性个体描述。梅洛 - 莱唐（1940年）描述了第二个物种红褐猎蛛A. rufescens，依据一只采自圭亚那埃塞奎博河的雌性个体。直到21世纪初，耶格等人（2009年）描述了长腹猎蛛的成年雄性和雌性个体，并将红褐猎蛛转移至斯帕里安蒂纳属Sparianthina Banks，1929年。在同一篇论文中，作者们描述了采自巴拿马的雄性个体命名的特米猎蛛A. temii Jäger, Rheims Labarque, 2009，以及采自哥伦比亚的雌性个体命名的莱维猎蛛A. levyi Jäger, Rheims Labarque, 2009。几年后，瓜拉等人（2012年）通过描述帕鲁猎蛛A. paru Guala, Labarque Rheims, 2012和苏尼猎蛛A. suni Guala, Labarque Rheims, 2012增加了已知物种的数量，这两个物种均依据采自厄瓜多尔的雄性和雌性个体。因此，猎蛛属目前包括五个物种，分布于中美洲南部和南美洲北部，从哥斯达黎加到厄瓜多尔中部（纳波省纳波港）（《世界蜘蛛名录》2018年）。
