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Genus: Piloctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017 | Family: Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877

Piloctenus mirificus (Arts, 1912)

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Described:

Distribution: Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea

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Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Ctenus mirificus Arts, 1912, (32099) -

Taxonomic References

Ctenus mirificus Arts, 1912: 209, pl. 3, f. 41 (Df) Original description

Ctenus mirificus Steyn, Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2003: 152, f. 48-52, 72, 86-87 (Dm, f, removed from S of Ctenus pilosus, rejecting Benoit, 1979c: 568)

Piloctenus mirificus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a: 129, f. S9A-H (mf, T from Ctenus)

References

Arts, L. des (1912). Zusammenstellung der afrikanischen Arten der Gattung Ctenus. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 29(2): 183-218. -- Show included taxa

Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. (2017a). Morphological and molecular evidence for new genera in the Afrotropical Cteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae) complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180(1): 82-154 & Suppl. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12461 -- Show included taxa

Steyn, T. L., Van der Donckt, J.-F. & Jocqué, R. (2003). The Ctenidae (Araneae) of the rainforests in eastern Côte d'Ivoire. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 290: 129-166. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2017-05-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a
2017-05-07	Species transferred to new genus	Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a		Species transferred from Ctenus to Piloctenus
2017-05-07	Species distribution update	Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a	Old value