World Spider Catalog

Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Acanthoctenidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 378; Lehtinen's inclusion of the Thalassiinae (Pisauridae) was rejected by Brignoli, 1983c: 585; considered polyphyletic by Griswold, 1993: 37); limits thoroughly discussed by Silva-Dávila, 2003; Cupiennius Simon, 1891 transferred to the Trechaleidae by Piacentini & Ramírez, 2019: 233 and Mahafalytenus Silva-Dávila, 2007 transferred to the Viridasiidae by Azevedo et al., 2022: 12; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 517, f. 17-18.

Gen. Afroneutria Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04283

In synonymy:

Afroneutria aureopubescens (Strand, 1906) = Afroneutria erythrochelis Simon, 1877 (Benoit, 1977n: 699, sub Ctenus)

Afroneutria auricularis (Karsch, 1879, T from Phoneutria) = Afroneutria erythrochelis Simon, 1877 (Arts, 1912: 188, sub Ctenus)

Afroneutria carsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) = Afroneutria erythrochelis Simon, 1877 (Arts, 1912: 188, sub Ctenus)

Afroneutria johnstoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) = Afroneutria erythrochelis Simon, 1877 (Arts, 1912: 188, sub Ctenus)

Afroneutria marshalli (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) = Afroneutria velox Blackwall, 1865 (Hyatt, 1954: 884, sub Ctenus melanogaster)

Afroneutria melanogaster (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) = Afroneutria velox Blackwall, 1865 (Benoit, 1977n: 700, sub Ctenus)

Afroneutria erythrochelis (Simon, 1877) | | West, Central, East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020557

Phoneutria erythrochelis Simon, 1877a: 222 (Dm) Original description

Phoneutria auricularis Karsch, 1879a: 347 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060887]

Ctenus erythrochelis Simon, 1897a: 107, f. 98, 101

Ctenus johnstoni F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 21, pl. 3, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060888]

Ctenus carsoni F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 24, pl. 3, f. 4-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060889]

Ctenus aureopubescens Strand, 1906h: 82 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060884]

Ctenus erythrochelis Arts, 1912: 188, pl. 1, f. 1a-b (mf, S of Ctenus carsoni, C. johnstoni and Phoneutria auricularis)

Ctenus erythrochelis Lessert, 1915a: 44, pl. 2, f. 33 (f)

Ctenus erythrochelis Benoit, 1977n: 698, f. 1A-D (mf, S of Ctenus aureopubescens)

Afroneutria erythrochelis Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 12, f. 6A-D, 7A-D, 12C, 15C-D (mf, T from Ctenus)

Phoneutria erythrochelis Frétey, 2023: 125 (year of description corrected)

Afroneutria hybrida Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047925

Afroneutria hybrida Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 20, f. 10A-B, 11A-C, 13C-D (Dm) Original description

Afroneutria immortalis (Arts, 1912) | | Kenya, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047923

Ctenus immortalis Arts, 1912: 202, pl. 2, f. 25 (Dmf) Original description

Ctenus immortalis Polotow & Brescovit, 2014: 348, f. 8D-F (m)

Afroneutria immortalis Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 8, f. 4A-D, 5A-E, 12A, 14A-B (mf, T from Ctenus, removed from S of Ctenus velox, rejecting Benoit, 1977n: 700)

Afroneutria quadrimaculata Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047924

Ctenus velox Benoit, 1977n: 700, f. 2a-d (mf; misidentified per Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 16)

Afroneutria quadrimaculata Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 16, f. 8A-D, 9A-E, 12B, 15A-B (Dmf) Original description

Afroneutria tanga Polotow & Jocqué, 2016 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048935

Afroneutria tanga Polotow & Jocqué, 2016: 396, f. 1-25 (Dmf) Original description

Afroneutria velox (Blackwall, 1865) | | Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020725

Ctenus velox Blackwall, 1865b: 336 (Df) Original description

Phoneutria melanogastra Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 36, pl. 1, f. 14 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060886]

Ctenus velox F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 15, pl. 3, f. 1-2 (f)

Ctenus marshalli F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 26, pl. 4, f. 12-13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060885]

Ctenus melanogaster Strand, 1907n: 694

Ctenus melanogaster Arts, 1912: 196, pl. 1, f. 14 (mf)

Ctenus melanogastra Hyatt, 1954: 884 (S of Ctenus marshalli)

Ctenus velox Benoit, 1977n: 700 (S of Ctenus immortalis and C. melanogaster; C. immortalis revalidated by Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 8)

Afroneutria velox Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 5, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3A-E, 12D, 13A-B (mf, T from Ctenus)