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Genus of spiders
Acontius is a
genus of
wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by
Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.
[3]
Species
As of May 2019
[update] 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
^
a
b
c
"Gen. Acontius Karsch, 1879" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. 2019.
doi :
10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31 .
^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 182 : 131.
^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin . 1879 : 63–65.