Acanthoctenus
Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.[3]
Acanthoctenus | |
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Acanthoctenus sp. | |
Eye pattern of male A. remotus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Ctenidae |
Genus: | Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877[1] |
Type species | |
A. spiniger Keyserling, 1877 | |
Species | |
10, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Female A. remotus are larger than males of the species, reaching a body length of about 15 millimetres (0.59 in). Males only grow up to 11 millimetres (0.43 in).
Species
As of April 2019 it contains ten species:[1]
- Acanthoctenus gaujoni Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Ecuador
- Acanthoctenus kollari (Reimoser, 1939) – Costa Rica
- Acanthoctenus maculatus Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
- Acanthoctenus mammifer Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Brazil
- Acanthoctenus obauratus Simon, 1906 – Brazil
- Acanthoctenus plebejus Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Peru
- Acanthoctenus remotus Chickering, 1960 – Jamaica
- Acanthoctenus rubrotaeniatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil
- Acanthoctenus spiniger Keyserling, 1877 (type) – Mexico to Venezuela
- Acanthoctenus spinipes Keyserling, 1877 – Guatemala to Paraguay
References
- "Gen. Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 256.
- Keyserling, E. (1877). "Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 26: 609–708.
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