Family: CTENIDAE Keyserling, 1877

wandering spiders

Similar Families

LYCOSIDAE PISAURIDAE TENGELLIDAE ZORIDAE ZOROCRATIDAE ZOROPSIDAE

Family Name Authority

Keyserling, E. 1877. Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 609-708.

Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 7 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Anahita Karsch, 1879

2	Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805

3	Leptoctenus L. Koch, 1878

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

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