Family: Ctenidae
Keyserling, 1877 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0036]
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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.
Status:
accepted
Last updated:
2024-10-12
Described in
Keyserling, 1877a: 681
Keyserling, 1877a: 681
Counts
Number of valid genera: 49
Number of valid species: 612
Number of valid genera: 49
Number of valid species: 612
Reference
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Keyserling, E. (1877a). Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 26: 609-708, pl. 7-8. 
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