''Aculithus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders in the family
Phrurolithidae
Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separ ...
. It was first described by
Ke-Ke Liu &
Shuqiang Li
Shuqiang Li is a Chinese arachnologist and a professor at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for sci ...
in 2022.
Species
, it contains seven species:
* ''
Aculithus bijiashanicus''
(Liu, 2020) (
type
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) — China
* ''
Aculithus chongyi''
Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022 — China
* ''
Aculithus fabiformis''
(Liu, Xu, Xiao, Yin & Peng, 2019) — China
* ''
Aculithus hippocampus''
(Jin, Fu, Yin & Zhang, 2016) — China
* ''
Aculithus subfabiformis''
(Liu, 2020) — China
* ''
Aculithus taishan''
Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022 — China
* ''
Aculithus xunwu''
Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022 — China
References
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Phrurolithidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Phrurolithidae