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]
Species
As of June 2022 it contains 6 species, all found in South Africa:[1]
- Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
- Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913 – 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
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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