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Ctenidae  Keyserling, 1877 / Ctenus  Walckenaer, 1805   1 species

Ctenus villasboasi Mello-Leitão, 1949

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020728

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Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Höfer et al. 1994)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Höfer et al. 1994)

species

female Epigyne
(Sherwood 2025)

species

female Epigyne
(von Eickstedt 1983)

species

female Epigyne
(von Eickstedt 1983)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Höfer et al. 1994)

species

female Sternum and coxae
(von Eickstedt 1983)

species

female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(von Eickstedt 1983)

Distribution List
United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Eickstedt V R D von (1983) Considerações sobre a sistemática das espécies Amazônicas de Phoneutria (Araneae, Ctenidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 1: 183-191 pdf

Höfer H, Brescovit A D, Gasnier T (1994) The wandering spiders of the genus Ctenus (Ctenidae, Araneae) of Reserva Ducke, a rainforest reserve in central Amazonia. Andrias 13: 81-98 pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-04-2025 Image insert
29-03-2025 Distribution insert Detail