Centroctenus

Centroctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929.[2]

Centroctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Centroctenus
Mello-Leitão, 1929[1]
Type species
C. ocelliventer
(Strand, 1909)
Species

5, see text

Species

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

  • Centroctenus acara Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus auberti (Caporiacco, 1954) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
  • Centroctenus irupana Brescovit, 1996 – Bolivia
  • Centroctenus miriuma Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus ocelliventer (Strand, 1909) (type) – Colombia, Brazil

References
  1. "Gen. Centroctenus Mello-Leitão, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 1: 91–112.


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