Isoctenus

Isoctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Isoctenus ; Bertkau, 1880
Type species
	I. foliifer ; Bertkau, 1880
Species
	15, see text
Synonyms
	Ctenopsis Schmidt, 1956;

Last updated July 30, 2025

Isoctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880.^[3]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species found in Brazil and Argentina:^[1]

Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
Isoctenus charada Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
Isoctenus corymbus Polotow, Brescovit & Pellegatti-Franco, 2005 – Brazil
Isoctenus coxalis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Brazil
Isoctenus eupalaestrus Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
Isoctenus foliifer Bertkau, 1880 (type) – Brazil
Isoctenus griseolus (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
Isoctenus herteli (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
Isoctenus janeirus (Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil
Isoctenus malabaris Polotow, Brescovit & Ott, 2007 – Brazil
Isoctenus minusculus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
Isoctenus ordinario Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil, Argentina
Isoctenus segredo Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
Isoctenus strandi Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
Isoctenus taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-25.
↑ Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2009). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Isoctenus and description of a new neotropical genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 155 (3): 586. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00452.x .
↑ Bertkau, P. (1880). "Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata im Jahren 1872-73 gensammelten Arachniden". Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 43: 1–120.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 3 "Gen. Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-25.

[Polo2009-2] Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2009). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Isoctenus and description of a new neotropical genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 155 (3): 586. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00452.x .

[Bert1880-3] Bertkau, P. (1880). "Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata im Jahren 1872-73 gensammelten Arachniden". Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 43: 1–120.

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