Isoctenus

Isoctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880
Type species
I. foliifer Bertkau, 1880
Species
15, see text
Synonyms
Ctenopsis Schmidt, 1956

Isoctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880.

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species found in Brazil and Argentina:

• Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus charada Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus corymbus Polotow, Brescovit & Pellegatti-Franco, 2005 – Brazil
• Isoctenus coxalis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Brazil
• Isoctenus eupalaestrus Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
• Isoctenus foliifer Bertkau, 1880 (type) – Brazil
• Isoctenus griseolus (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
• Isoctenus herteli (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
• Isoctenus janeirus (Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil
• Isoctenus malabaris Polotow, Brescovit & Ott, 2007 – Brazil
• Isoctenus minusculus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Isoctenus ordinario Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil, Argentina
• Isoctenus segredo Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus strandi Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
• Isoctenus taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil

References