Leptoctenus

Genus of spiders

Leptoctenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Leptoctenus
L. Koch, 1878[1]
Type species
L. agalenoides
L. Koch, 1878
Species

6, see text

Leptoctenus is a genus of wandering spiders first described by L. Koch in 1878.[2]

Species

As of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1]

  • Leptoctenus agalenoides L. Koch, 1878 (type) – Australia
  • Leptoctenus byrrhus Simon, 1888 – USA, Mexico
  • Leptoctenus daoxianensis Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000 – China
  • Leptoctenus gertschi Peck, 1981 – Mexico
  • Leptoctenus paradoxus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama
  • Leptoctenus sonoraensis Peck, 1981 – Mexico

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Leptoctenus L. Koch, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. ^ Koch, L. (1878). Die Arachniden Australiens.

External links

  • Leptoctenus at BugGuide
Taxon identifiers
Leptoctenus


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