# Acroaspis

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{{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](/source/Ferdinand_Karsch), 1878<ref name=wsc />
| type_species = ''[A. olorina](/source/Acroaspis_olorina)''
| type_species_authority = Karsch, 1878
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 6, see text
}}

'''''Acroaspis''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [South Pacific](/source/Oceania) [orb-weaver spiders](/source/Araneidae) first described by [Ferdinand Karsch](/source/Ferdinand_Karsch) in 1878.<ref name=Kars1878 />

==Distribution==
Spiders in this genus are [endemic](/source/endemic) to [Australia](/source/Australia) and [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand):<ref name=wsc />

==Species==
{{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes five species:<ref name="wsc" />
{{Div col}}
* ''[Acroaspis decorosa](/source/Acroaspis_decorosa)'' <small>(Urquhart, 1894)</small> – [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand)
* ''[Acroaspis lancearia](/source/Acroaspis_lancearia)'' <small>([Keyserling](/source/Eugen_von_Keyserling), 1887)</small> – [Australia](/source/Australia) ([New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales))
* ''[Acroaspis mamillana](/source/Acroaspis_mamillana)'' <small>(Keyserling, 1887)</small> – Australia (New South Wales)
* ''[Acroaspis olorina](/source/Acroaspis_olorina)'' <small>[Karsch](/source/Ferdinand_Karsch), 1878</small> – Australia ([Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia), New South Wales)
* ''[Acroaspis scutifer](/source/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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