Nothroctenus

Genus of spiders

Nothroctenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Nothroctenus
Badcock, 1932[1]
Type species
N. stupidus
Badcock, 1932
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

Nothroctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by H. D. Badcock in 1932.[3]

Species

As of April 2019[update] it contains nine species in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia:[1]

  • Nothroctenus bahiensis Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus fuxico Dias & Brescovit, 2004 – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus lineatus (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
  • Nothroctenus marshi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
    • Nothroctenus m. pygmaeus (Strand, 1909) – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus omega (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus sericeus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus spinulosus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
  • Nothroctenus stupidus Badcock, 1932 (type) – Paraguay

References

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Nothroctenus Badcock, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 244.
  3. ^ Badcock, H. D. (1932). "Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustes of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 38: 1–48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x.
Taxon identifiers
Nothroctenus


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