Kiekie (spider)

Kiekie is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow & Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018.[2]

Kiekie
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Kiekie
Polotow & Brescovit, 2018[1]
Type species
K. sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)
Species

11, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Kiekie antioquia Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Colombia
  • Kiekie barrocolorado Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Panama
  • Kiekie curvipes (Keyserling, 1881) — Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
  • Kiekie garifuna Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Guatemala, Honduras
  • Kiekie griswoldi Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Costa Rica
  • Kiekie montanensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Costa Rica, Panama
  • Kiekie panamensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Panama
  • Kiekie sanjose Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Costa Rica
  • Kiekie sarapiqui Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Costa Rica
  • Kiekie sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) — Panama, Costa Rica
  • Kiekie verbena Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 — Costa Rica

References

  1. "Gen. Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). "Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4531 (3): 353–373. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2.


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