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Ctenidae  Keyserling, 1877 / Acanthoctenus  Keyserling, 1877   2 species

Acanthoctenus alux  Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Guatemala
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"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Netherlands   (Rivera-Quiroz et al., 2025) |||
References

Arizala S, Labarque F M, Polotow D (2021) Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae). Zootaxa 4920: 1-55 pdf

Lehtinen P T (1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 pdf

Rivera-Quiroz F A, Helsdingen P J van, Miller J A (2025) A blast from the past: Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021, an exotic spider in The Netherlands, imported many decades ago (Araneae: Ctenidae). Arachnology 20: 313-315 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-07-2025 Image insert
03-07-2025 Image insert
02-07-2025 Distribution insert Detail