Kiekie (spider)

Kiekie is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018.[2] The type species, Kiekie sinuatipes, was originally described under the name "Ctenus sinuatipes".[3]

Kiekie
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Kiekie
Polotow & Brescovit, 2018[1]
Type species
Ctenus sinuatipes
Species

11, see text

Species

As of April 2022 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • K. antioquia Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia
  • K. barrocolorado Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama
  • K. curvipes (Keyserling, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
  • K. garifuna Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Guatemala, Honduras
  • K. griswoldi Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
  • K. montanensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
  • K. panamensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama
  • K. sanjose Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
  • K. sarapiqui Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
  • K. sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) (type) – Panama, Costa Rica
  • K. verbena Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  2. Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). "Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4531 (3): 353–373. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2.
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897). "On cteniform spiders from the lower Amazons and other regions of North and South America, with a list of all known species of these groups hitherto recorded from the New World". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (109): 52–106, pl. doi:10.1080/00222939708680507.

Further reading

  • Petrunkevitch, A. (1925). "Arachnida from Panama". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27: 51–248.
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