Biology:Acroaspis

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Acroaspis
Acroaspis mamillana (10.3897-evolsyst.3.33454) Figure 2.jpg
Scientific classification e
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) 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. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Acroaspis Karsch, 1878". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/261. Retrieved 2019-05-11. 
  2. Karsch, F. (1878). "Exotisch-araneologisches.". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 51: 771–826. 

Wikidata ☰ Q675815 entry