Acanthoscurria

Acanthoscurria
Acanthoscurria juruenicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871 [1]
Type species
A. geniculata (C. L. Koch, 1841)
Species
19, see text
Synonyms [1]
Trasyphoberus Simon, 1903 [2]

Acanthoscurria is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871. ^[3] They are found throughout South America including the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, plus into the Windward Islands West Indies, .

Species

As of December 2025 ^[update] , it contained nineteen species, found in South America and the West Indies: ^[1]

• Acanthoscurria armasi Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera–R. & Alayón, 2025 – Colombia
• Acanthoscurria belterrensis Paula, Gabriel, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria chacoana Brèthes, 1909 – Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
• Acanthoscurria cordubensis Thorell, 1894 – Argentina
• Acanthoscurria geniculata (C. L. Koch, 1841) (type) – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello–Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria insubtilis Simon, 1892 – Bolivia, Brazil
• Acanthoscurria juruenicola Mello–Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria maga Simon, 1892 – South America
• Acanthoscurria melloleitaoi Bertani, 2023 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria musculosa Simon, 1892 – Bolivia
• Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin, 1917 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria paulensis Mello–Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria rhodothele Mello–Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria simoensi Vol, 2000 – French Guiana, Brazil
• Acanthoscurria tarda Pocock, 1903 – Brazil
• Acanthoscurria theraphosoides (Doleschall, 1871) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana
• Acanthoscurria turumban Rodríguez–Manzanilla & Bertani, 2010 – Venezuela
• Acanthoscurria urens Vellard, 1924 – Brazil

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-01-02.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 159.
3. Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.