Biology:Acrosomoides

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Acrosomoides
Acrosomoides acrosomoides.jpg
Acrosomoides acrosomoides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Acrosomoides
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
A. linnaei
(Walckenaer, 1841)

Acrosomoides is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only three species.[1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Acrosomoides:

  • Acrosomoides acrosomoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) – Madagascar
  • Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) – West, Central, East Africa
  • Acrosomoides tetraedrus (Walckenaer, 1841) – Cameroon, Congo

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Acrosomoides Simon, 1887". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/262. Retrieved 2019-05-11. 
  2. Simon, E. (1887). "Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7 (6): 261–276. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2823512 entry