Acanthogonatus Explained

Acanthogonatus is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880.^[1] Originally placed with the brushed trapdoor spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.^[2]

Species

it contains thirty species, found in Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile:^[3]

• Acanthogonatus alegre Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus birabeni Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Acanthogonatus brunneus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Acanthogonatus campanae (Legendre & Calderón, 1984) – Chile
• Acanthogonatus centralis Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Acanthogonatus chilechico Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus confusus Goloboff, 1995 – Chile, Argentina
• Acanthogonatus ericae Indicatti, Lucas, Ott & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
• Acanthogonatus francki Karsch, 1880 (type) – Chile
• Acanthogonatus fuegianus (Simon, 1902) – Chile, Argentina
• Acanthogonatus hualpen Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus huaquen Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus incursus (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peru
• Acanthogonatus juncal Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus minimus Indicatti, Folly-Ramos, Vargas, Lucas & Brescovit, 2015 – Brazil
• Acanthogonatus mulchen Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus nahuelbuta Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus notatus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
• Acanthogonatus parana Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Acanthogonatus patagallina Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus patagonicus (Simon, 1905) – Chile, Argentina
• Acanthogonatus peniasco Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus pissii (Simon, 1889) – Chile
• Acanthogonatus quilocura Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus recinto Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus subcalpeianus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Acanthogonatus tacuariensis (Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1982) – Brazil, Uruguay
• Acanthogonatus tolhuaca Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus vilches Goloboff, 1995 – Chile
• Acanthogonatus messii Signorotto & Ferretti, 2023

Formerly included:

• A. argentina (Simon, 1897) (Transferred to Stenoterommata)

Nomen dubium

• A. gounellei (Simon, 1886

See also

• List of Pycnothelidae species

Further reading

• Goloboff. P. A.. 1995. A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part I: species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–189. 224.
• Gerschman de P.. B. S.. Schiapelli. R. D.. 1968. El género Tryssothele Simon, 1902 (Araneae, Dipluridae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21–31. 28.
• Legendre. R.. Calderón G.. R.. 1984. Liste systématique des araignées mygalomorphes du Chili. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1021–1065. 6. 4. 10.5962/p.285897. free.
• Gerschman de P.. B. S.. Schiapelli. R. D.. 1970. Discusión de los caracteres válidos en la sistemática de las aranas Theraphosomorphae. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 150–154. 41.

Notes and References

1. Karsch. F.. 1880. Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften . Dritte Folge. 373–409. 5. Ferdinand Karsch.
2. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701–702. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
3. Gen. Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.