Centroctenus Explained

Centroctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929.^[1]

Species

it contains eleven species:^[2]

• Centroctenus acara Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
• Centroctenus alinahui Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Ecuador
• Centroctenus auberti (Caporiacco, 1954) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
• Centroctenus chalkidisi Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
• Centroctenus claudia Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
• Centroctenus coloso Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Colombia
• Centroctenus dourados Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil
• Centroctenus irupana Brescovit, 1996 – Bolivia
• Centroctenus miriuma Brescovit, 1996 – Brazil
• Centroctenus ocelliventer (Strand, 1909) (type) – Colombia, Brazil
• Centroctenus varzea Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020 – Brazil

Notes and References

1. Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1929. Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel.. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 91–112. 1.
2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian. 2021. Gen. Centroctenus Mello-Leitão, 1929. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. 2021-07-09.