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 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. Leptoctenus L. Koch, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01794

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805 by Lehtinen, 1967: 244, rejecting Simon, 1897a: 114.

Transferred to other genera:

Leptoctenus lycosinus Simon, 1896 -- see Anahita

Leptoctenus agalenoides L. Koch, 1878 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020762

Leptoctenus agalenoides L. Koch, 1878a: 994, pl. 87, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Ctenus agelenoides Simon, 1897a: 111 (T from Leptoctenus, lapsus)

Leptoctenus agalenoides Lehtinen, 1967: 244 (T from Ctenus)

Leptoctenus byrrhus Simon, 1888 | | USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020763

Leptoctenus byrrhus Simon, 1888b: 210 (Df) Original description

Ctenus byrrhus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 113, pl. 8, f. 9 (f)

Leptoctenus byrrhus Peck, 1981: 166, f. 20-21, 24-25 (Tmf from Ctenus)

Leptoctenus daoxianensis Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037089

Leptoctenus daoxianensis Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000: 95, f. 6-9 (Df) Original description

Leptoctenus daoxianensis Yin et al., 2012: 939, f. 475a-d (f)

Leptoctenus gertschi Peck, 1981 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020764

Leptoctenus gertschi Peck, 1981: 167, f. 22-23, 26-27 (Dmf) Original description

Leptoctenus paradoxus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020465

Celaetycheus paradoxus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 115, pl. 8, f. 13 (Dm) Original description

Leptoctenus paradoxus Polotow & Brescovit, 2009b: 16 (Tm from Celaetycheus)

Leptoctenus sonoraensis Peck, 1981 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020765

Leptoctenus sonoraensis Peck, 1981: 167, f. 28-29 (Dm) Original description

Leptoctenus sonoraensis Jiménez, 2004: 272, f. 1-2 (Df)