Nothroctenus Explained

Nothroctenus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by H. D. Badcock in 1932.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia:^[2]

• Nothroctenus bahiensis Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil
• Nothroctenus fuxico Dias & Brescovit, 2004 – Brazil
• Nothroctenus lineatus (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
• Nothroctenus marshi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
  • Nothroctenus m. pygmaeus (Strand, 1909) – Brazil
• Nothroctenus omega (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Nothroctenus sericeus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Nothroctenus spinulosus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Nothroctenus stupidus Badcock, 1932 (type) – Paraguay

Notes and References

1. Badcock. H. D.. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustes of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco.. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 1–48. 38. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x.
2. Gen. Nothroctenus Badcock, 1932. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-25. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.