Acroaspis

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

Acroaspis
Scientific classification
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

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. "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.


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