Acrosomoides

Acrosomoides is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.^[2] As of April 2019^[update] it contains only three species.^[1]

Acrosomoides
Acrosomoides acrosomoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Acrosomoides Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
A. linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841)

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Acrosomoides:

• Acrosomoides acrosomoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) – Madagascar
• Acrosomoides linnaei (Walckenaer, 1841) – West, Central, East Africa
• Acrosomoides tetraedrus (Walckenaer, 1841) – Cameroon, Congo