Biology:Macroctenus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Macroctenus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Macroctenus
Henrard & Jocqué, 2017[1]
Type species
M. kingsleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
Species

5, see text

Macroctenus is a genus of wandering spiders first described by A. Henrard & Rudy Jocqué in 2017.[2]

Species

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

  • Macroctenus herbicola Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 — Guinea
  • Macroctenus kingsleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — West, Central Africa
  • Macroctenus nimba Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 — Guinea
  • Macroctenus occidentalis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — West Africa
  • Macroctenus vandenspiegeli Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 — Guinea

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Macroctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5615. Retrieved 2019-04-01. 
  2. 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. 

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