Biology:Centroctenus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Centroctenus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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

11, see text

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

Species

(As of July 2021) it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Centroctenus acara Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus alinahui Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Ecuador
  • Centroctenus auberti (Caporiacco, 1954) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
  • Centroctenus chalkidisi Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus claudia Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus coloso Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Colombia
  • Centroctenus dourados Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus irupana Brescovit, 1996 – Bolivia
  • Centroctenus miriuma Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
  • Centroctenus ocelliventer (Strand, 1909) (type) – Colombia, Brazil
  • Centroctenus varzea Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). Gen. Centroctenus Mello-Leitão, 1929. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/619. Retrieved 2021-07-09. 
  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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