Isoctenus

Isoctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880.[3]

Isoctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880[1]
Type species
I. foliifer Bertkau, 1880
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Ctenopsis Schmidt, 1956[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains fifteen species found in Brazil and Argentina:[1]

• Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus charada Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus corymbus Polotow, Brescovit & Pellegatti-Franco, 2005 – Brazil
• Isoctenus coxalis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Brazil
• Isoctenus eupalaestrus Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
• Isoctenus foliifer Bertkau, 1880 (type) – Brazil
• Isoctenus griseolus (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
• Isoctenus herteli (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
• Isoctenus janeirus (Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil
• Isoctenus malabaris Polotow, Brescovit & Ott, 2007 – Brazil
• Isoctenus minusculus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Isoctenus ordinario Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil, Argentina
• Isoctenus segredo Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
• Isoctenus strandi Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
• Isoctenus taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil

References

1. "Gen. Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
2. Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2009). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Isoctenus and description of a new neotropical genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 155 (3): 586. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00452.x.
3. Bertkau, P. (1880). "Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata im Jahren 1872-73 gensammelten Arachniden". Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 43: 1–120.