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Ctenidae  Keyserling, 1877 / Phoneutria  Perty, 1833   5 species

Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891)

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
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Distribution List
Belgium   (Van Keer, 2007; Van Keer, 2011) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Eickstedt V R D von (1981) Estudo sistemático de Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891) e Phoneutria keyserlingi (Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) (Araneae; Labidognatha; Ctenidae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 42/43: 95-126 pdf

Martins R, Bertani R (2007) The non-Amazonian species of the Brazilian wandering spiders of the genus Phoneutria Perty, 1833 (Araneae: Ctenidae), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 1526: 1-36 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 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

Simó M, Brescovit A D (2001) Revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical spider genus Phoneutria Perty, 1833 (Araneae, Ctenidae), with notes on related Ctenidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 67-82 pdf

Van Keer K (2007) Exotic spiders (Araneae): verified reports from Belgium of imported species (1976-2006) and some notes on apparent neozoan invasive species. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 22: 45-54 pdf

Van Keer K (2011) An update on the verified reports of imported spiders (Araneae) from Belgium. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 25(3, 2010): 210-214 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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