Family: Xenoctenidae Ramírez & Silva-Dávila, 2017 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0126] Back
Gen.
Xenoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1938 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03532 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Tunabo Chamberlin, 1916 (now a synonym of Neoctenus, family Trechaleidae) by Silva-Dávila, 2003: 32 (contra Lehtinen, 1967: 272) and considered a close relative of some taxa currently placed in Odo Keyserling, 1887; transferred from the Ctenidae to the Xenoctenidae (as its type genus) by Wheeler et al., 2017: 609.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-01-16
2024-01-16
Described in
Mello-Leitão, 1938a: 101 (type Xenoctenus unguiculatus Mello-Leitão, 1938; gender masculine)
Mello-Leitão, 1938a: 101 (type Xenoctenus unguiculatus Mello-Leitão, 1938; gender masculine)
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Species counts
Counts | Status |
6 | accepted |
1 | synonym |
1 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit historyDate | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2017-11-14 | Genus transferred to other family | Wheeler et al., 2017 | Xenoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1938 transferred to Xenoctenidae |
2014-07-25 | Genus transferred to other family | Ramírez, 2014 | Xenoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1938 transferred to Miturgidae |