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Genus: Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877 | Family: Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877

Acanthoctenus spinipes Keyserling, 1877

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020404

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021)

Taxonomic References

Acanthoctenus spinipes Keyserling, 1877a: 695, pl. 8, f. 61 (Df) Original description

Acanthoctenus spinipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897b: 103, pl. 4, f. 3d (Dm)

Acanthoctenus spinipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 356, pl. 33, f. 14 (m; f see Acanthoctenus alux)

Acanthoctenus spinipes Lehtinen, 1967: 208 (S of Paracantheis virginea, rejected by Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021: 31)

Acanthoctenus spinipes Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021: 17, f. 15A-E, 16A-D, 17A-C, 18A-B (mf)

Acanthoctenus spinipes Sherwood, 2025b: 125, f. 5A-C (f)

References

Arizala, S., Labarque, F. M. & Polotow, D. (2021). Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae). Zootaxa 4920(1): 1-55. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.1.1 [[incl. Erratum: Zootaxa 5032(4): 600]] -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1877a). Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 26: 609-708, pl. 7-8. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897b). On cteniform spiders from the lower Amazons and other regions of North and South America, with a list of all known species of these groups hitherto recorded from the New World. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 19(109): 52-106, pl. 3-4. doi: 10.1080/00222939708680507 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. London 2, 313-424. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2025b). Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34(1): 121-160. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.1.10 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2025b
2021-01-27	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Gephyroctenus kolosvaryi Caporiacco, 1947
2021-01-27	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Gephyroctenus kolosvaryi Caporiacco, 1947
2021-01-27	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Gephyroctenus kolosvaryi Caporiacco, 1947
2021-01-27	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Acanthoctenus virginea (Kraus, 1955)
2021-01-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021
2021-01-27	Species distribution update	Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021	Old value