Taxon details

Family: Ctenidae / Genus: Macroctenus

Macroctenus kingsleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2017-09-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020607]
  • Distribution: West, Central Africa
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  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (5001-134) of Ctenus nigrifemur (Jäger, 2022a)
Taxonomic references
Ctenus kingsleyi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 20, pl. 3, f. 6 (Df).
Ctenus dirus Thorell, 1899: 76 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062493].
Ctenus nigrifemur Strand, 1908d: 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062494].
Ctenus dirus Strand, 1908e: 273 (Dm).
Ctenus dirus Arts, 1912: 190, pl. 1, f. 2 (mf).
Ctenus kingsleyi Hyatt, 1954: 884 (S of Ctenus dirus).
Ctenus kingsleyi Benoit, 1978a: 219, f. 1A-D (mf, S of Ctenus nigrifemur and C. occitentalis [revalidated by Steyn, Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2003: 155]).
Ctenus kingsleyi Steyn, Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2003: 150, f. 43-47, 74, 85 (mf).
Macroctenus kingsleyi Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a: 103, f. S6A-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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1978a). Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) VII. Gen. Ctenus Walck. - groupe kingsleyi. Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 219-223. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hyatt, K. H. (1954). The African spiders of the family Ctenidae in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 7(84): 877-894, pl. 30-32. doi:10.1080/00222935408651809 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1898). On the cteniform spiders of Africa, Arabia and Syria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(1): 13-32, pl. 3-4. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03126.x download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908d). Neue außereuropäische Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 5-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908e). Exotisch-araneologisches. I. Amerikanische, hauptsächlich in Peru, Bolivien und Josemitetal in Californien gesammelte Spinnen. II. Spinnen aus Kamerun. III. Übersicht der bekannten Hysterocrates-Arten. IV. Zur Kenntnis der Aranea rufipalpis (Luc.). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 61: 223-295. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-05-07 New taxonomic reference entry Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a n/a
2017-05-07 Species transferred to new genus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017a Species transferred from Ctenus to Macroctenus