Acacesia | |
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Acacesia tenella | |
Acacesia hamata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Acacesia Simon, 1895[1] |
Type species | |
Epeira hamata (Hentz, 1847)
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Species | |
6, see text |
Acacesia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2] It contains six species with a mostly neotropical distribution, ranging from South America to Mexico. One species, A. hamata, is found in the US as well.
The backs of spiders in this genus are marked with a dagger shape, outlined in black and surrounded by a triangular folium. On each side of the dagger there are parallel rows of orange-brown dots. Body length of females ranges from 4.3 to 8 millimetres (0.17 to 0.31 in), of males from 3.6 to 6.5 millimetres (0.14 to 0.26 in)[3]
As the other species are only known from museum specimens, only the natural history A. hamata is known in any detail.[3][4]
As of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1]