Acontius (spider)
''Acontius'' is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879. Species it contains twelve species: *'' Acontius aculeatus'' (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea *'' Acontius africanus'' (Simon, 1889) – West Africa, Congo *'' Acontius australis'' (Simon, 1886) – Argentina *''Acontius hartmanni'' Karsch, 1879 (type) – Angola *''Acontius humiliceps'' (Simon, 1907) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *''Acontius kiriba'' Zonstein, 2018 – Burundi *''Acontius lamottei'' (Dresco, 1972) – Ivory Coast *'' Acontius lawrencei'' ( Roewer, 1953) – Congo *'' Acontius lesserti'' (Roewer, 1953) – Congo *''Acontius machadoi'' (Lessert, 1938) – Congo *''Acontius nimba'' Zonstein, 2018 – Guinea *''Acontius stercoricola Acontius (Ancient Greek: Ἀκόντιος), was in Greek mythology a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos, the hero of a love-story told by Callimachus in a poem of which only fragments remain, and which forms the subject of ...
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Ferdinand Karsch
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch or Karsch-Haack (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist. The son of a doctor, Karsch was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and published a thesis on the gall wasp in 1877. From 1878 to 1921 he held the post of curator at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Between 1873 and 1893, he published a catalogue of the spiders of Westphalia; he also published numerous articles on the specimens that the museum received from various explorers and naturalists working in Africa, in China, in Japan, in Australia, etc. This publication of others' work sometimes led to disputes over priority and nomenclature, for example with Pickard-Cambridge. Alongside his zoological activities, he published many works on sexuality and, in particular, homosexuality in both the animal kingdom and in so