Taxon details

Family: Ctenidae / Genus: Ctenus

Ctenus nigromaculatus Thorell, 1899

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2017-09-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020644]
  • Distribution: Central, West Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Ctenus illecebrosus Arts, 1912, (14252)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 7m (A0003468), 10f (A0003467), 5f (A0003470) of Ctenus gemmatus Arts, 1912 (Arts, 1912)
Taxonomic references
Ctenus nigromaculatus Thorell, 1899: 76 (Df).
Ctenus hexastictus Simon, 1909f: 351, f. 8 (Dmf).
Ctenus nigromaculatus Arts, 1912: 193, pl. 1, f. 9 (mf).
Ctenus illecebrosus Arts, 1912: 194, pl. 1, f. 10 (Df).
Ctenus gemmatus Arts, 1912: 197, pl. 2, f. 17 (Dmf).
Ctenus hexastictus Hyatt, 1954: 883, f. 20 (f).
Ctenus nigromaculatus Benoit, 1980: 110, f. 1, 7, 11a-b (mf, S of Ctenus eminens [revalidated by Steyn, Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2003: 145], C. gemmatus, C. hexastictus and C. illecebrosus).
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. (1980). Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains X. Gen. Ctenus Walck. - groupe nigromaculatus (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94: 109-118. 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

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer] 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

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-09-13 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Piloctenus pilosus (Thorell, 1899)