Taxon details
Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-07-02
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052794]
- Distribution: Guatemala
- Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (AR222) (Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021)
- Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 1f (Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021)
Acanthoctenus spinipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 356, pl. 33, f. 15 (f; misidentified per Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021: 37).
Acanthoctenus spiniger Lehtinen, 1967: 208, f. 414 (f; misidentified per Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021: 37; m f. 420 shows another species).
Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021: 37, f. 35A-B, 36A-D, 37A-B (Df).
Acanthoctenus alux Rivera-Quiroz, van Helsdingen & Miller, 2025: 313, f. 1A-E (f).
Arizala, S., Labarque, F. M. & Polotow, D. (2021). Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae). Zootaxa 4920(1): 1-55. [incl. Erratum: Zootaxa 5032(4): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4920.1.1 
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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. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Rivera-Quiroz, F. A., Helsdingen, P. J. van & Miller, J. A. (2025). A blast from the past: Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021, an exotic spider in The Netherlands, imported many decades ago (Araneae: Ctenidae). Arachnology 20(2): 313-315. doi:10.13156/arac.2025.20.2.313 -- Show included taxa
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-02 | New taxonomic reference entry | Rivera-Quiroz, van Helsdingen & Miller, 2025 | n/a |
| 2021-01-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Lehtinen, 1967 | n/a |
| 2021-01-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a | n/a |
| 2021-01-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a | n/a |
| 2021-01-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 | n/a |
| 2021-01-27 | New species inserted | Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 | n/a |