Acroterius
| Acroterius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Acroterius Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. brevis Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Acroterius is a genus of east Asian sheet weavers. It was first described by M. Irfan, S. Bashir and X. J. Peng in 2021,[2] and it has only been found in China.[1]
Species
[edit]As of December 2021[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- A. absentus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. brevis Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 (type) – China
- A. camur Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. circinatus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. hamatus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. inversus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. latus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. longidentatus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. longimultus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. longiprojectus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. ovatus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
- A. parvus Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021 – China
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Acroterius Irfan, Bashir & Peng, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ Irfan, M.; Bashir, S.; Peng, X. J. (2021). "Acroterius gen. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Linyphiinae) with twelve new species from Yunnan, China". European Journal of Taxonomy (743): 1–53. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.743.1293. S2CID 233574240.