Piloctenus is a genus of wandering spiders first described by A. Henrard & Rudy Jocqué in 2017.[2]
| Piloctenus | |
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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: | Piloctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. pilosus (Thorell, 1899) | |
| Species | |
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Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Piloctenus gryseelsi Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 — Guinea
- Piloctenus haematostoma Jocqué & Henrard, 2017 — Guinea
- Piloctenus mirificus (Arts, 1912) — Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea
- Piloctenus pilosus (Thorell, 1899) — West, Central Africa
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Piloctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ^ Henrard, A.; Jocqué, R. (2017). "Morphological and molecular evidence for new genera in the Afrotropical Cteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae) complex". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180 (1): 82–154. doi:10.1111/zoj.12461.