Ctenolophus

Ctenolophus is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.[3]

Ctenolophus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Ctenolophus
Purcell, 1904[1]
Type species
C. kolbei
(Purcell, 1902)
Species

7, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains seven species, all found in South Africa:[1]

  • Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus heligmomeriformis Strand, 1907 – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus kolbei (Purcell, 1902) (type) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus oomi Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus pectinipalpis (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus spiricola (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. Purcell, W. F. (1904). "Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 15: 115–173. doi:10.1080/21560382.1904.9626437.
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 138.
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