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Aptostichus miwok
Male (top) and female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Euctenizidae
Genus:	Aptostichus
Species:	A. miwok
Binomial name
Aptostichus miwok Bond, 2008

Aptostichus miwok is a species of spiders in the family Euctenizidae named after the Coast Miwok Indian tribe known to have inhabited the coastal areas of California from the Golden Gate northward prior to European settlement. It is similar to the Aptostichus angelinajolieae named after actress Angelina Jolie and Aptostichus stephencolberti named after satirist Stephen Colbert described by the same author.

References

1. ^ Bond, Jason E. & Amy K. 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.

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• Euctenizidae
• Endemic fauna of California
• Endemic spiders of the United States
• Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands
• Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
• Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
• Spiders described in 2008
• Domiothelina stubs