{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Acroaspis decorosa 243750309.jpg | image_caption = ''A. decorosa'' in New Zealand | image2 = Acroaspis olorina - Third Silence - 160807529.jpeg | image2_caption = ''A. olorina'' in Australia | taxon = Acroaspis | authority = Karsch, 1878<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''A. olorina'' | type_species_authority = Karsch, 1878 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, see text }}
'''''Acroaspis''''' is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878.<ref name=Kars1878 />
==Distribution== Spiders in this genus are endemic to Australia and New Zealand:<ref name=wsc />
==Species== {{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes five species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Acroaspis decorosa'' <small>(Urquhart, 1894)</small> – New Zealand * ''Acroaspis lancearia'' <small>(Keyserling, 1887)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) * ''Acroaspis mamillana'' <small>(Keyserling, 1887)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) * ''Acroaspis olorina'' <small>Karsch, 1878</small> – Australia (Western Australia, New South Wales) * ''Acroaspis scutifer'' <small>(Keyserling, 1886)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) {{Div col end}}
==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00440 | title=Gen. Karsch, 1878 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2026-01-26}}</ref> <ref name="Kars1878">{{cite journal| last=Karsch| first=F.| year=1878| title=Exotisch-araneologisches.| journal=Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften| pages=771–826| volume=51}}</ref> </references>
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Araneidae genera Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Spiders of New Zealand Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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