Attacobius Explained

Attacobius is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1925.^[1]

Species

it contains sixteen species, one from Argentina and the rest from Brazil:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1925. Pequenas notas arachnologicas.. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 455–463. 1.
2. Gen. Attacobius Mello-Leitão, 1925. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-18. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.