Acanthogonatus peniasco

Acanthogonatus peniasco
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Nemesiidae
Genus: Acanthogonatus
Species: A. peniasco
Binomial name
Acanthogonatus peniasco
Goloboff, 1995

Acanthogonatus peniasco is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, its name arising from its type locality: El PeƱasco, Linares, VII Region (del Maule), Chile.[1] Females differ from those of A. franki and A. recinto in the shorter, wider, and more sclerotized spermathecal ducts, and from those of other species in the genus by having 1-1-1 P spines in the patella IV.

Description

Distribution

It is known to habitate in borrows only from the type locality. These have an open entrance, lined with little silk, in banks and hill slopes in an open forest.

It sometimes co-habitates the same area as Calathotarsus and Scotinoecus species.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Goloboff, Pablo A. "A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part 1, Species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 224." (1995).

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