Acentroscelus

Acentroscelus is a genus of South American crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.^[3] It is a senior synonym of Whittickius.^[2]

Acentroscelus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Acentroscelus Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
A. albipes Simon, 1886
Species
11, see text
Synonyms[1]
Whittickius Mello-Leitão, 1940[2]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains eleven species, found in Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and French Guiana:^[1]

• Acentroscelus albipes Simon, 1886 (type) – Brazil
• Acentroscelus gallinii Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
• Acentroscelus granulosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Acentroscelus guianensis (Taczanowski, 1872) – Peru, French Guiana
• Acentroscelus muricatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil
• Acentroscelus nigrianus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Acentroscelus peruvianus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
• Acentroscelus ramboi Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil
• Acentroscelus secundus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Acentroscelus singularis (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
• Acentroscelus versicolor Soares, 1942 – Brazil

See also

• List of Thomisidae species