Acanthoctenus

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

Female A. remotus are larger than males of the species, reaching a body length of about . Males only grow up to .

Species

Acanthoctenus currently contains 13 described species:

• Acanthoctenus alux – Guatemala
• Acanthoctenus chickeringi – Panama
• Acanthoctenus dumicola – Venezuela
• Acanthoctenus gaujoni <small>Simon, 1906</small> – Venezuela, Ecuador
• Acanthoctenus kollari <small>(Reimoser, 1939)</small> – Costa Rica
• Acanthoctenus lamarrei – Panama
• Acanthoctenus manauara – Brazil
• Acanthoctenus plebejus <small>Simon, 1906</small> – Venezuela, Peru
• Acanthoctenus remotus <small>Chickering, 1960</small> – Jamaica
• Acanthoctenus spiniger <small>Keyserling, 1877</small> (type) – Mexico to Venezuela
• Acanthoctenus spinipes <small>Keyserling, 1877</small> – Guatemala to Paraguay
• Acanthoctenus torotoro – Bolivia
• Acanthoctenus virginea – El Salvador

Incertae sedis:

• Acanthoctenus maculatus <small>Petrunkevitch, 1925</small> – Panama (species inquirenda)

• Acanthoctenus obauratus <small>Simon, 1906</small> – Brazil
• Acanthoctenus rubrotaeniatus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1947</small> – Brazil

Acanthoctenus mammifer was formerly placed in this genus, but was transferred to the genus Viracucha.

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