Acusilas

This article is about the genus of spiders. For the ancient Greek logographer and mythographer, see Acusilaus.

Acusilas is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.^[2]

Acusilas
Acusilas coccineus, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Acusilas Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
A. coccineus Simon, 1895
Species
9, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains nine species:^[1]

• Acusilas africanus Simon, 1895 – West, Central, East Africa
• Acusilas callidus Schmidt & Scharff, 2008 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895 – India, China to Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Acusilas dahoneus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Acusilas lepidus (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
• Acusilas malaccensis Murphy & Murphy, 1983 – Thailand, Laos, China, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
• Acusilas spiralis Schmidt & Scharff, 2008 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Acusilas vei Schmidt & Scharff, 2008 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Acusilas vilei Schmidt & Scharff, 2008 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)