Acontius (spider)
| Acontius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Genus: | Acontius Karsch, 1879[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. hartmanni Karsch, 1879
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Acontius is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.[3]
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.