Piloctenus

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

Piloctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Piloctenus
Henrard & Jocqué, 2017[1]
Type species
P. pilosus (Thorell, 1899)
Species

4, see text

Species

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

  • Piloctenus gryseelsi Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 — Guinea
  • Piloctenus haematostoma Jocqué & Henrard, 2017 — Guinea
  • Piloctenus mirificus (Arts, 1912) — Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea
  • Piloctenus pilosus (Thorell, 1899) — West, Central Africa

References
  1. "Gen. Piloctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 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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