Guasuctenus is a small genus of South American wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2019.[2] As of November 2021[update] it contains only two species: G. longipes and G. vittatissimus.[1] The type species was originally described under the name "Ctenus griseus.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Guasuctenus Polotow & Brescovit, 2019[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ctenus griseus (Keyserling, 1891)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Guasuctenus Polotow & Brescovit, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
- ^ Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2019). "Guasuctenus gen. nov., a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4624 (4): 539–550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.6.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen [The spiders of America. Brazilian spiders] (in German). Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe. pp. 1–278. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
Further reading
edit- Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2014). "Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily Cteninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Ctenidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170 (2): 333–361. doi:10.1111/zoj.12101.
- Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1936). "Contribution à l'etude des Ctenides du Bresil" [Contribution to the study of the Ctenides of Brazil]. Festschrift Embrik Strand (in French). 1: 1–31.
- Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1931). "Arachnidos do Rio Grande do Sul" [Spiders of the southern Rio Grande]. Boletin Biologico Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese). 17: 10–14.
- Strand, E. (1916). "Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums" [Systematic faunistic studies of Palearctic, African and American spiders in the Senckenberg Museum]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 81 (A9): 1–153.
- Strand, E. (1909). "Neue oder wenig bekannte südamerikanische Cupiennius- und Ctenus-Arten" [New or little known South American Cupiennius and Ctenus species]. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (in German). 28 (3): 293–328.