Acartauchenius Explained

Acartauchenius is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species:^[2]

• Acartauchenius asiaticus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Turkmenistan
• Acartauchenius bedeli (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
• Acartauchenius derisor (Simon, 1918) – France
• Acartauchenius desertus (Tanasevitch, 1993) – Kazakhstan
• Acartauchenius hamulifer (Denis, 1937) – Algeria
• Acartauchenius himalayensis Tanasevitch, 2011 – Pakistan
• Acartauchenius insigniceps (Simon, 1894) – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
• Acartauchenius leprieuri (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Algeria
• Acartauchenius minor (Millidge, 1979) – Italy
• Acartauchenius monoceros (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan
• Acartauchenius mutabilis (Denis, 1967) – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
• Acartauchenius orientalis Wunderlich, 1995 – Mongolia
• Acartauchenius planiceps Bosmans, 2002 – Algeria
• Acartauchenius praeceps Bosmans, 2002 – Algeria
• Acartauchenius sardiniensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Sardinia
• Acartauchenius scurrilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia
• Acartauchenius simoni Bosmans, 2002 – Algeria

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Acartauchenius Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.