Acanthoceto
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Acanthoceto
| authority = Mello-Leitão, 1944
| subdivision = 7, see text
| type_species = A. acupicta
| type_species_authority = (Nicolet, 1849)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
}}
Acanthoceto is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1944.{{cite journal |last=Mello-Leitão |first=C. F. de |year=1944 |title=Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. |journal=Revista del Museo de La Plata |pages=311–393 |volume=3 |series=New Series, Zool}}
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains seven species:{{cite web |title=Gen. Acanthoceto Mello-Leitão, 1944 |website=World Spider Catalog |access-date=2019-05-09 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/202}}
- Acanthoceto acupicta (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
- Acanthoceto cinerea (Tullgren, 1901) – Chile, Argentina
- Acanthoceto ladormida Ramírez, 1997 – Chile
- Acanthoceto marina Ramírez, 1997 – Chile
- Acanthoceto pichi Ramírez, 1997 – Chile, Argentina
- Acanthoceto riogrande Ramírez, 1997 – Brazil, Argentina
- Acanthoceto septentrionalis (Berland, 1913) – Colombia, Ecuador
References
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Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
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