Gephyroctenus

Gephyroctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1936.[2]

Gephyroctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Gephyroctenus
Mello-Leitão, 1936[1]
Type species
G. philodromoides
Mello-Leitão, 1936
Species

9, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains nine species:[1]

  • Gephyroctenus acre Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus atininga Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus divisor Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus esteio Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus juruti Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Peru, Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus mapia Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus panguana Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Peru
  • Gephyroctenus philodromoides Mello-Leitão, 1936 (type) – Peru, Brazil
  • Gephyroctenus portovelho Polotow & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Gephyroctenus Mello-Leitão, 1936". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1936). "Contribution à l'etude des Ctenides du Bresil". Festschrift Embrik Strand. 1: 1–31.


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