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Acantheis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Acantheis Thorell, 1891
Type species
A. variatus (Thorell, 1890)
Species
9, see text

Acantheis is a genus of Asian wandering spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.

Species

As of April 2019 it contains nine species:

• Acantheis boetonensis (Strand, 1913) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Acantheis celer (Simon, 1897) – Indonesia (Java)
• Acantheis dimidiatus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Acantheis indicus Gravely, 1931 – India
• Acantheis laetus (Thorell, 1890) – Borneo
• Acantheis longiventris Simon, 1897 – Malaysia, Indonesia
• Acantheis nipponicus Ono, 2008 – Japan
• Acantheis oreus (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
• Acantheis variatus (Thorell, 1890) (type) – Indonesia (Nias Is.)

References

1. ^ "Gen. Acantheis Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
2. Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.

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