Acantheis is a genus of Asian wandering spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[2]
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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: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Acantheis Thorell, 1891[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. variatus (Thorell, 1890)
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9, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains nine species:[1]
- Acantheis boetonensis (Strand, 1913) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Acantheis celer (Simon, 1897) – Indonesia (Java)
- Acantheis dimidiatus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Acantheis indicus Gravely, 1931 – India
- Acantheis laetus (Thorell, 1890) – Borneo
- Acantheis longiventris Simon, 1897 – Malaysia, Indonesia
- Acantheis nipponicus Ono, 2008 – Japan
- Acantheis oreus (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
- Acantheis variatus (Thorell, 1890) (type) – Indonesia (Nias Is.)
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Acantheis Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.