Cycloctenus is a genus of Australasian araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, first described by L. Koch in 1878. Originally placed with the nursery web spiders, it was transferred to the family Toxopidae because of the distinctive arrangement of its eyes, particularly the enlarged posterolateral eyes. It was moved to the Cycloctenidae in 1967.
Species
it contains seventeen species:
- Cycloctenus abyssinus <small>Urquhart, 1890</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Cycloctenus agilis <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus centralis <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus cryptophilus <small>Hickman, 1981</small> â Australia (Tasmania)
- Cycloctenus duplex <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus fiordensis <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus flaviceps <small>L. Koch, 1878</small> (type) â Australia
- Cycloctenus flavus <small>Hickman, 1981</small> â Australia (Tasmania)
- Cycloctenus fugax <small>Goyen, 1890</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus infrequens <small>Hickman, 1981</small> â Australia (Tasmania)
- Cycloctenus lepidus <small>Urquhart, 1890</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus montivagus <small>Hickman, 1981</small> â Australia (Tasmania)
- Cycloctenus nelsonensis <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus paturau <small>Forster, 1979</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus pulcher <small>Urquhart, 1891</small> â New Zealand
- Cycloctenus robustus <small>(L. Koch, 1878)</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Cycloctenus westlandicus <small>Forster, 1964</small> â New Zealand
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