Acanthoctenus

Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.^[3]

Acanthoctenus
Acanthoctenus sp.
Eye pattern of male A. remotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Acanthoctenus Keyserling, 1877[1]
Type species
A. spiniger Keyserling, 1877
Species
13, see text
Synonyms[1]
Paracantheis Keyserling, 1877[2]

Female A. remotus are larger than males of the species, reaching a body length of about 15 millimetres (0.59 in). Males only grow up to 11 millimetres (0.43 in).

Species

Acanthoctenus currently contains 13 described species:^[1]

• Acanthoctenus alux Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Guatemala
• Acanthoctenus chickeringi Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Panama
• Acanthoctenus dumicola Simon, 1906 – Venezuela
• Acanthoctenus gaujoni Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Ecuador
• Acanthoctenus kollari (Reimoser, 1939) – Costa Rica
• Acanthoctenus lamarrei Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Panama
• Acanthoctenus manauara Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Brazil
• Acanthoctenus plebejus Simon, 1906 – Venezuela, Peru
• Acanthoctenus remotus Chickering, 1960 – Jamaica
• Acanthoctenus spiniger Keyserling, 1877 (type) – Mexico to Venezuela
• Acanthoctenus spinipes Keyserling, 1877 – Guatemala to Paraguay
• Acanthoctenus torotoro Arizala, Labarque & Polotow, 2021 – Bolivia
• Acanthoctenus virginea (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador

Incertae sedis:^[4]

• Acanthoctenus maculatus Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama (species inquirenda)

• Acanthoctenus obauratus Simon, 1906 – Brazil
• Acanthoctenus rubrotaeniatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil

Acanthoctenus mammifer was formerly placed in this genus, but was transferred to the genus Viracucha.^[4]