Aphantochilus is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. As of June 2020[update] it contains...

Aphantochilidae was incorporated into the Thomisidae in the late 1980s. Aphantochilus species mimic Cephalotes ants, on which they prey. The spiders of Thomisidae...

closely. Among the many spiders which are aggressive mimics of ants, Aphantochilus rogersi mimics its sole prey, Cephalotini ants. Like many other ant-mimicking...

poinari Baroni Urbani, 1999 †Cephalotes ventriosus De Andrade, 1999 Aphantochilus, a genus of crab spiders known to mimic Cephalotes species Latreille...

Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay. Like the crab spider Aphantochilus, it mimic ants of the genus Cephalotes (probably C. atratus), which...