Incasoctenus

Incasoctenus is a monotypic genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Xenoctenidae, containing the single species, Incasoctenus perplexus. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942,[2] and has only been found in Peru and only the female is known.[1] Originally placed with the wandering spiders, it was moved to the Xenoctenidae in 2017.[3]

Incasoctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Xenoctenidae
Genus: Incasoctenus
Mello-Leitão, 1942[1]
Species:
I. perplexus
Binomial name
Incasoctenus perplexus

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Incasoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1942). "Cinco aranhas novas do Perú". Revista Brasileira de Biologia. 2: 429–434.
  3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.


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