Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.[3]
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| Eye pattern of male A. remotus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877[1] |
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| A. spiniger Keyserling, 1877
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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
editAcanthoctenus 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
- Acanthoctenus maculatus Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama (species inquirenda)
- 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
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1877). "Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 26: 609–708.
- ^ a b Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." Zootaxa 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.