World Spider Catalog

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, Mahafalytenus Silva-Dávila, 2007 transferred to the Viridasiidae by Azevedo et al., 2022: 12 and Ancylometes Bertkau, 1880 transferred to the Ancylometidae by Hazzi, Wood & Hormiga, 2025: 7; Hazzi, Wood & Hormiga, 2025: 7 list these subfamilies: Acantheinae Simon, 1897a: 115 (sub Acantheae), Acanthocteninae Simon, 1892, Calocteninae Simon, 1897a: 119 (sub Calocteneae), Cteninae and Enoplocteninae Hazzi, Wood & Hormiga, 2025.

Gen. Guasuctenus Polotow & Brescovit, 2019 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04540

type Ctenus longipes Keyserling, 1891; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Guasuctenus griseus (Keyserling, 1891, T from Ctenus) = Guasuctenus longipes (Keyserling, 1891) (Polotow & Brescovit, 2019a: 543)

Guasuctenus vertebratus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Guasuctenus longipes (Keyserling, 1891) (Mello-Leitão, 1936a: 10, sub Ctenus)

Guasuctenus longipes (Keyserling, 1891) | | Brazil, Uruguay urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020617 TYPE SPECIES

Ctenus griseus Keyserling, 1891: 152, pl. 4, f. 105 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020577]

Ctenus longipes Keyserling, 1891: 150, pl. 4, f. 103 (Dm) Original description

Ctenus vertebratus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902b: 404, pl. 7, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062514]

Ctenus longipes Strand, 1909h: 305 (f)

Ctenus vertebratus Mello-Leitão, 1931a: 13, f. 4 (Dm)

Ctenus longipes Mello-Leitão, 1936a: 10, pl. 1, f. 14, pl. 2, f. 12-13 (mf, S of Ctenus vertebratus)

Isoctenus foliiferus Mello-Leitão, 1936a: 19, pl. 1, f. 41 (f; misidentified per Polotow & Brescovit, 2009a: 590)

Ctenus longipes Polotow & Brescovit, 2014: 349, f. 9C-D (m)

Guasuctenus longipes Polotow & Brescovit, 2019a: 543, f. 1A-D, 2A-F, 3A-C, 4A-D, 5A-D (mf, T from Ctenus, S of Ctenus griseus)

Guasuctenus vittatissimus (Strand, 1916) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020618

Ctenus longipes vittatissima Strand, 1916b: 131 (Df) Original description

Guasuctenus vittatissimus Polotow & Brescovit, 2019a: 546, f. 6A-B, 7A-D (f, T from Ctenus, elevated from subspecies of Ctenus longipes)