Acroaspis

Acroaspis is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878.^[2]

Acroaspis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Acroaspis Karsch, 1878[1]
Type species
A. olorina Karsch, 1878
Species
6, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains six species in Australia and New Zealand:^[1]

• Acroaspis decorosa (Urquhart, 1894) – New Zealand
• Acroaspis lancearia (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Acroaspis mamillana (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Acroaspis olorina Karsch, 1878 – Australia (Western Australia, New South Wales)
• Acroaspis scutifer (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Acroaspis tuberculifera Thorell, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)