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Attacobius

Attacobius is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1925.

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Attacobius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Attacobius
Mello-Leitão, 19251
Type species
A. luederwaldti
(Mello-Leitão, 1923)
Species

16, see text

Synonyms1
  • Achalaicola Mello-Leitão, 19432
  • Morenilia Mello-Leitão, 19422
  • Myrmeques Roewer, 19353

Attacobius is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1925.4

Species

As of April 2019 it contains sixteen species, one from Argentina and the rest from Brazil:1

  • Attacobius attarum (Roewer, 1935) – Brazil
  • Attacobius blakei Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius carimbo Pereira-Filho, Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius carranca Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius demiguise Pereira-Filho, Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius kitae Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius lamellatus Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius lauricae Pereira-Filho, Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius lavape Bonaldo, Pesquero & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius luederwaldti (Mello-Leitão, 1923) (type) – Brazil
  • Attacobius nigripes (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Argentina
  • Attacobius thalitae Pereira-Filho, Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius tremembe Pereira-Filho, Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2018 – Brazil
  • Attacobius tucurui Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius uiriri Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
  • Attacobius verhaaghi Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1998 – Brazil
References

References

  1. "Gen. Attacobius Mello-Leitão, 1925". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baptista, R. L. C. (1995). "On the spider genus Attacobius (Araneae, Dionycha)". American Museum Novitates (3120): 6.
  3. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1947). "Aranhas do Paraná e Santa Catarina, das coleções do Museu Paranaense". Arquivos do Museu Paranaense. 6: 285.
  4. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1925). "Pequenas notas arachnologicas". Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1: 455–463.