Platnick & Shadab, 1984 : 7 A taxonomic revision of the ground spiders of the genus Apopyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) Azevedo, Guilherme H. F. Ott, Ricardo Griswold, Charles E. Santos, Adalberto J. Zootaxa 2016 4178 3 301 327 67QL3 Platnick & Shadab, 1984 Platnick & Shadab 1984 [151,648,1321,1348] Arachnida Gnaphosidae Apopyllus Animalia Araneae 9 310 Arthropoda species now     Apopyllus now  Platnick & Shadab, 1984: 7, figs 19–22. Male holotypeand female paratypefrom the south slope of Veeris Berg, Curaçao( 12º10’7”N, 68º59’25”W), 20.XII.1962, H.W. Levi coll., deposited in MCZ (examined).   Diagnosis.Females can be distinguished by the anterior ridge arched and thick on the sides ( Figs 10E, 11E). Males can be diagnosed by the retrolateral cymbial projection shorter than the RTA in dorsal and ventral view, by the shorter embolus, with a more distally situated embolus loop, and by the shape of the robust RTA ( Figs 3C, 4C, 5C, 6C, 7C, 8C).   Description.See Platnick & Shadab (1984).   Material examined.Only the holotype and paratype.   Distribution.Known only from the typelocality, Curaçao( Fig. 14A).