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, 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. Asthenoctenus Simon, 1897 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01780

type Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Asthenoctenus amicus (Mello-Leitão, 1941, T from Itatiaya) = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4)

Asthenoctenus humilis Mello-Leitão, 1942 = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4)

Asthenoctenus jujuyensis Mello-Leitão, 1941 = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Brescovit & Simó, 1998: 2)

Asthenoctenus macdonaghi (Mello-Leitão, 1938, T from Centroctenus) = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4)

Asthenoctenus mendocinus Mello-Leitão, 1943 = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4)

Asthenoctenus sordidus Mello-Leitão, 1944 = Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 (Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4)

Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897 | | Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020443 TYPE SPECIES

Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897a: 113, f. 99

Asthenoctenus borellii Simon, 1897e: 7 (Df) Original description

Centroctenus mac-donaghi Mello-Leitão, 1938a: 102, f. 18 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062501]

Asthenoctenus jujuyensis Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 156, pl. 7, f. 34 (Df; j per Brescovit & Simó, 1998: 2) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062500]

Itatiaya amica Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 159, f. 54, pl. 8, f. 37 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062498]

Asthenoctenus humilis Mello-Leitão, 1942b: 404, f. 27 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062499]

Asthenoctenus mendocinus Mello-Leitão, 1943c: 109, f. 11 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062502]

Asthenoctenus sordidus Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 350, f. 40 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062503]

Asthenoctenus mendozinus Roewer, 1955c: 637

Asthenoctenus borellii Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 4, f. 1-16 (mf, S of Asthenoctenus humilis, A. mendocinus, A. sordidus, Centroctenus macdonaghi and Itatiaya amica)

Asthenoctenus jujuyensis Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 10 (nomen dubium)

Asthenoctenus borellii Brescovit & Simó, 1998: 2, f. 1-6 (mf, S of Asthenoctenus jujuyensis, removed from nomen dubium)

Asthenoctenus borellii Polotow & Brescovit, 2014: 355, f. 15C, 17B (f)

Asthenoctenus bulimus (Strand, 1909) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020511

Ctenus bulimus Strand, 1909h: 303 (Dm) Original description

Asthenoctenus bulimus Polotow & Brescovit, 2014: 360 (T from Ctenus)

Asthenoctenus hingstoni (Mello-Leitão, 1948) | | Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020444

Acanthoctenus hingstoni Mello-Leitão, 1948: 172, f. 15 (Df) Original description

Asthenoctenus hingstoni Lehtinen, 1967: 217 (T from Acanthoctenus)

Asthenoctenus hingstoni Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 10 (does not belong to Asthenoctenus)

Asthenoctenus longistylus Brescovit & Simó, 1998 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020445

Asthenoctenus longistylus Brescovit & Simó, 1998: 3, f. 7-15 (Dmf) Original description

Asthenoctenus tarsalis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020709

Ctenus tarsalis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902b: 404, pl. 7, f. 9 (Df) Original description

Asthenoctenus tarsalis Polotow & Brescovit, 2014: 360, f. 5B-C, 13B (mf, T from Ctenus)

Asthenoctenus tigrinus Mello-Leitão, 1938 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041295

Asthenoctenus tigrinus Mello-Leitão, 1938a: 100, f. 15 (Df) Original description

Asthenoctenus tigrinus Simó & von Eickstedt, 1994: 10 (considered to belong to Zoridae [now Miturgidae], but without specifying a genus)