Tenedos (spider)

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Tenedos
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Tenedos
O. P-Cambridge, 1897 [1]
Species

See text.

Diversity [1]
72 species

Tenedos is a spider genus of the family Zodariidae. It has around 72 species from Central and South America. [1]

The genus is possibly paraphyletic; it forms an evolutionary lineage with the genus Ishania , but which species should be placed in which genus is not completely resolved. [2]

Species

As of May 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Tenedos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 3 May 2022
  2. Jocqué, R. & Baert, L. (2002), "A revision of the Neotropical spider genera Tenedos O.P.-Cambridge and Ishania Chamberlin (Araneae, Zodariidae)", Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie, 72: 67–173