Acroaspis

Genus of spiders

Acroaspis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Acroaspis
Karsch, 1878[1]
Type species
A. olorina
Karsch, 1878
Species

6, see text

Acroaspis is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878.[2]

Species

As of April 2019[update] it contains six species in Australia and New Zealand:[1]

  • Acroaspis decorosa (Urquhart, 1894) – New Zealand
  • Acroaspis lancearia (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Acroaspis mamillana (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Acroaspis olorina Karsch, 1878 – Australia (Western Australia, New South Wales)
  • Acroaspis scutifer (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Acroaspis tuberculifera Thorell, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Acroaspis Karsch, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. ^ Karsch, F. (1878). "Exotisch-araneologisches". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 51: 771–826.
Taxon identifiers
Acroaspis
  • Wikidata: Q675815
  • Wikispecies: Acroaspis
  • ADW: Acroaspis
  • AFD: Acroaspis
  • BioLib: 467482
  • BOLD: 289456
  • CoL: 627SV
  • EoL: 112749
  • GBIF: 2160618
  • iNaturalist: 375347
  • IRMNG: 1433257
  • ITIS: 847785
  • NCBI: 2337722
  • NZOR: 4e8bc479-8f7e-4e84-a062-e9c00258c179
  • Open Tree of Life: 3571426
  • WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01420


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