Biology:Acontius (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Acontius
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus: Acontius
Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
A. hartmanni
Karsch, 1879
Species

12, see text

Synonyms[1][2]
  • Aporoptychus Simon, 1886

Acontius is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains twelve species:[1]

  • Acontius aculeatus (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
  • Acontius africanus (Simon, 1889) – West Africa, Congo
  • Acontius australis (Simon, 1886) – Argentina
  • Acontius hartmanni Karsch, 1879 (type) – Angola
  • Acontius humiliceps (Simon, 1907) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
  • Acontius kiriba Zonstein, 2018 – Burundi
  • Acontius lamottei (Dresco, 1972) – Ivory Coast
  • Acontius lawrencei (Roewer, 1953) – Congo
  • Acontius lesserti (Roewer, 1953) – Congo
  • Acontius machadoi (Lessert, 1938) – Congo
  • Acontius nimba Zonstein, 2018 – Guinea
  • Acontius stercoricola (Denis, 1955) – Guinea

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Acontius Karsch, 1879. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/695. Retrieved 2019-05-31. 
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 131. 
  3. Karsch, F. (1879). "Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen.". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879: 63–65. 

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