Acanthogonatus

Acanthogonatus is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880.^[4] Originally placed with the brushed trapdoor spiders,^[4] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[3] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.^[5]

Acanthogonatus
Acanthogonatus francki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Pycnothelidae
Genus:	Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880[1]
Type species
A. francki Karsch, 1880
Species
30, see text
Synonyms[1]
Chubutia Mello-Leitão, 1940[2] Tryssothele Simon, 1902[3]

Species

As of October 2023^[update] it contains thirty species, found in Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile:^[1]

• 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