Acanthoctenus

<i>Acanthoctenus</i>

Acanthoctenus

Genus of spiders

Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.[3]

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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

Acanthoctenus currently contains 13 described species:[1]

  • Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Guatemala
  • Acanthoctenus chickeringi Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Panama
  • Acanthoctenus dumicola Simon, 1906 – Venezuela
  • Acanthoctenus gaujoni Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Ecuador
  • Acanthoctenus kollari (Reimoser, 1939) – Costa Rica
  • Acanthoctenus lamarrei Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Panama
  • Acanthoctenus manauara Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Brazil
  • Acanthoctenus plebejus Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Peru
  • Acanthoctenus remotus Chickering, 1960 – Jamaica
  • Acanthoctenus spiniger Keyserling, 1877 (type) – Mexico to Venezuela
  • Acanthoctenus spinipes Keyserling, 1877 – Guatemala to Paraguay
  • Acanthoctenus torotoro Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Bolivia
  • Acanthoctenus virginea (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador

Incertae sedis:[4]

  • Acanthoctenus obauratus Simon, 1906 – Brazil
  • Acanthoctenus rubrotaeniatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil

Acanthoctenus mammifer was formerly placed in this genus, but was transferred to the genus Viracucha.[4]

References

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


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