Kiekie (spider) explained

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

Species

it contains eleven species:

• 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

• Ctenus
• List of Ctenidae species

Further reading

• Polotow. D.. Brescovit. A. D.. Antônio Brescovit. 2014. Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily Cteninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Ctenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170. 2. 333–361. 10.1111/zoj.12101. free.
• Petrunkevitch. A.. 1925. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arachnida from Panama. 27. 51–248.