Biology:Acanthoceto

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Acanthoceto
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Acanthoceto
Mello-Leitão, 1944[1]
Type species
A. acupicta
(Nicolet, 1849)
Species

7, see text

Acanthoceto is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1944.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains seven species:[1]

  • Acanthoceto acupicta (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
  • Acanthoceto cinerea (Tullgren, 1901) – Chile, Argentina
  • Acanthoceto ladormida Ramírez, 1997 – Chile
  • Acanthoceto marina Ramírez, 1997 – Chile
  • Acanthoceto pichi Ramírez, 1997 – Chile, Argentina
  • Acanthoceto riogrande Ramírez, 1997 – Brazil, Argentina
  • Acanthoceto septentrionalis (Berland, 1913) – Colombia, Ecuador

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Acanthoceto Mello-Leitão, 1944". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/202. 
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944). "Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires.". Revista del Museo de La Plata. New Series, Zool 3: 311–393. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2822519 entry