Gen.
Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01785 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Dyomonomma Karsch, 1879h: 108 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05606] (type D. drassoides Karsch, 1879) by Petrunkevitch, 1911: 472 and of Oligoctenus Simon, 1887d: 186 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01798] (type Microctenus ornatus Keyserling, 1877) by Brescovit & Simó, 2007: 2, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 254); Oligoctenus is a replacement name for Microctenus Keyserling, 1877a: 687 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04777], preoccupied in Reptilia by Fitzinger, 1843; not a senior synonym of Phoneutria Perty, 1833, Leptoctenus L. Koch, 1878, Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880 or Trogloctenus Lessert, 1935 (Lehtinen, 1967: 241, 244, 272).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-10-12
2024-10-12
Described in
Walckenaer, 1805: 18 (type Ctenus dubius Walckenaer, 1805; gender masculine)
Walckenaer, 1805: 18 (type Ctenus dubius Walckenaer, 1805; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 157 | accepted |
| 35 | synonym |
| 7 | nomen dubium |
| 1 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. 
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