''Asthenoctenus'' is a
genus
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of
South America
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n
wandering spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1897.
Species
it contains six species:
*''
Asthenoctenus borellii''
Simon, 1897 (
type
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) – Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
*''
Asthenoctenus bulimus''
(Strand
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, 1909) – Brazil
*''
Asthenoctenus hingstoni''
( Mello-Leitão, 1948) – Guyana
*''
Asthenoctenus longistylus''
Brescovit & Simó, 1998 – Brazil
*''
Asthenoctenus tarsalis''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Brazil
*''
Asthenoctenus tigrinus''
Mello-Leitão, 1938 – Argentina
References
Araneomorphae genera
Ctenidae
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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