World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Acrosomoides Simon, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01421

type Gasteracantha chaperi Simon, 1887; gender masculine

N.B.: described as subgenus; removed from the synonymy of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 by Benoit, 1962a: 45.

In synonymy:

Acrosomoides chaperi (Simon, 1887) = Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) (Dahl, 1914: 268, sub Gasteracantha)

Acrosomoides heterodoxa (Karsch, 1879) = Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) (Dahl, 1914: 268, sub Gasteracantha)

Acrosomoides inversa (Walckenaer, 1841) = Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) (Dahl, 1914: 268, sub Gasteracantha)

Acrosomoides acrosomoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014425

Gasteracantha acrosomoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879c: 289, pl. 27, f. 19 (Df) Original description

Acrosomoides acrosomoides Emerit, 1974: 61, f. 20-21, 22A-C, 26C (f, T from Gasteracantha)

Acrosomoides acrosomoides Emerit, 1982b: 154, f. 1

Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) | | West, Central, East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014426 TYPE SPECIES

Plectana linnaei Walckenaer, 1841: 163 (Df) Original description

Plectana inversa Walckenaer, 1841: 164 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065577]

Atelacantha heterodoxa Karsch, 1879a: 330 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065578]

Gasteracantha (Acrosomoides) chaperi Simon, 1887a: 266 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065579]

Gasteracantha (Acrosomoides) linnaei Dahl, 1914: 268 (S of Gasteracantha chaperi, G. heterodoxa and G. inversa)

Acrosomoides linnaei Benoit, 1962a: 45, f. 30-31 (f, T from Gasteracantha)

Acrosomoides linnaei Emerit, 1982c: 461, f. 3-4 (Dm)

Acrosomoides tetraedra (Walckenaer, 1841) | | Cameroon, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014427

Plectana tetraedra Walckenaer, 1841: 166 (Df) Original description

Gasteracantha tetraedra Dahl, 1914: 269, f. 9 (f)

Acrosomoides tetraedra Benoit, 1962a: 48, f. 33-34 (f, T from Gasteracantha)