World Spider Catalog

Idiopidae Simon, 1889

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated to family status and relimited by Raven, 1985a: 137; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 487, f. 5.

Gen. Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00077

N.B.: transferred from the Ctenizidae to the Idiopidae by Raven, 1985a: 138.

Nomen dubium:

Ctenolophus heligmomeriformis Strand, 1907a: 548, Strand, 1907f: 171 (f, South Africa) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 24

Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000673

Acanthodon cregoei Purcell, 1902b: 352 (Dm) Original description

Ctenolophus cregoei Purcell, 1904: 119

Ctenolophus cregoei Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021h: 7, 8 f. (m)

Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000674

Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913b: 414 (Df) Original description

Ctenolophus fenoulheti Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021h: 8, 4 f. (f habitus)

Ctenolophus kolbei (Purcell, 1902) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000676

Acanthodon kolbei Purcell, 1902b: 353 (Df) Original description

Ctenolophus kolbei Purcell, 1904: 118

Ctenolophus oomi Hewitt, 1913 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000677

Ctenolophus oomi Hewitt, 1913b: 415 (Df) Original description

Acanthodon oomi Hewitt, 1916b: 187

Ctenolophus oomi Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021h: 10, 3 f. (f habitus)

Ctenolophus pectinipalpis (Purcell, 1903) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000678

Acanthodon pectinipalpis Purcell, 1903b: 87 (Dm) Original description

Ctenolophus pectinipalpis Purcell, 1904: 118

Ctenolophus pectinipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021h: 11, 4 f. (m)

Ctenolophus spiricola (Purcell, 1903) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000679

Acanthodon spiricola Purcell, 1903b: 88, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Ctenolophus spiricola Purcell, 1904: 118

Acanthodon spiricola Hewitt, 1914a: 17 (Dm)

Idiops spiriferus Roewer, 1942a: 154 (superfluous replacement name, erroneously proposed for "Acanthodon spiricola Hewitt, 1914", which was specified by Hewitt to be the first description of the male of Purcell's species, not a description of a proposed new species) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000794]