Actinopus

Actinopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Mygalomorphae
Family:Actinopodidae
Genus:Actinopus
Perty, 1883[1]
Species

See text.

Actinopus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It is found in South America, Central America and Trinidad.

Male Actinopus sp. strolling along the upper course of Rio Lujan
Male Actinopus sp. floating on a thin film of water in a side channel of Rio Lujan

Taxonomy

The genus was erected in 1883 by Maximilian Perty,[1] initially for the species Actinopus tarsalis, from Brazil. The genus name is derived from Greek actin- "ray, beam" and pous "foot".[2]

Species

As of October 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Actinopus caraiba (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Actinopus crassipes (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Actinopus cucutaensis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
  • Actinopus dubiomaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
  • Actinopus echinus Mello-Leitão, 1949 – Brazil
  • Actinopus fractus Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Brazil
  • Actinopus goloboffi Ríos, 2014 – Argentina
  • Actinopus harti Pocock, 1895 – Trinidad
  • Actinopus insignis (Holmberg, 1881) – Argentina
  • Actinopus liodon (Ausserer, 1875) – Uruguay
  • Actinopus longipalpis C. L. Koch, 1842 – Uruguay
  • Actinopus nattereri (Doleschall, 1871) – Brazil
  • Actinopus nigripes (Lucas, 1834) – Brazil
  • Actinopus paranensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Argentina
  • Actinopus pertyi Lucas, 1843 – South America
  • Actinopus piceus (Ausserer, 1871) – Brazil
  • Actinopus princeps Chamberlin, 1917 – Brazil
  • Actinopus pusillus Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Brazil
  • Actinopus robustus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892) – Panama
  • Actinopus rojasi (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Actinopus rufibarbis Mello-Leitão, 1930 – Brazil
  • Actinopus rufipes (Lucas, 1834) – Brazil
  • Actinopus scalops (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Actinopus tarsalis Perty, 1833 (type species) – Brazil
  • Actinopus trinotatus Mello-Leitão, 1938 – Brazil
  • Actinopus valencianus (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Actinopus wallacei F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – Brazil, Bolivia
  • Actinopus xenus Chamberlin, 1917 – South America

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Actinopus Perty, 1883", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-10-19
  2. ↑ Perty, M. (1833), "Arachnides Brasilienses", in de Spix, J.B. & Martius, F.P., Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Braziliam ann. 1817 et 1820 colligerunt, Monachius , pp. 198-199
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