| Aptostichus stephencolberti | |
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| Male specimen (holotype) | |
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| Female specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Euctenizidae |
| Genus: | Aptostichus |
| Species: | A. stephencolberti
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| Binomial name | |
| Aptostichus stephencolberti Bond & Stockman 2008[1]
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Aptostichus stephencolberti is a species of spider in the family Euctenizidae, named after the American satirist Stephen Colbert.[2] The spider was discovered on the California coastline in 2007.[3]
- ^ Bond, Jason; Amy Stockman (2008). "An Integrative Method for Delimiting Cohesion Species: Finding the Population-Species Interface in a Group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with Extreme Genetic Divergence and Geographic Structuring". Systematic Biology. 57 (4): 628–646. doi:10.1080/10635150802302443. PMID 18686196.
- ^ Bond, Jason. "How to Name a Species - Taxonomy and Why it is Important". East Carolina University. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
- ^ Melago, Carrie (2008-08-01). "California spider named for Stephen Colbert". The New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-03.