Acanthoctenus

Acanthoctenus
Acanthoctenus sp.
Eye pattern of male A. remotus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Acanthoctenus
Keyserling, 1877
Type species
A. spiniger
Keyserling, 1877
Species

13, see text

Synonyms

Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.

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

Acanthoctenus currently contains 13 described species:

Incertae sedis:

Acanthoctenus mammifer was formerly placed in this genus, but was transferred to the genus Viracucha.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Keyserling, E. (1877). "Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 26: 609–708.
  4. 1 2 Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." Zootaxa 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.