Stenoterommata Explained

Stenoterommata is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by E. L. Holmberg in 1881.^[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[2] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.^[3] It is a senior synonym of Ctenochelus.

The name is a Latinized form of the Ancient Greek "Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: stenoterommatos", referring to posterior eyes that are narrower than any other species in Argentina.

Species

it contains 26 species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:^[4]

• Stenoterommata arnolisei Indicatti, Lucas, Ott & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata bodoquena Ghirotto & Indicatti, 2021 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata chavarii Ghirotto & Indicatti, 2021 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata crassimana (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Stenoterommata crassistyla Goloboff, 1995 – Uruguay, Argentina
• Stenoterommata curiy Indicatti, Lucas, Ott & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata egric Ghirotto & Indicatti, 2021 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata grimpa Indicatti, Lucas, Ott & Brescovit, 2008 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata gugai Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata iguazu Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Stenoterommata isa (Nicoletta, Panchuk, Peralta-Seen & Ferretti, 2022) – Argentina
• Stenoterommata leporina (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
• Stenoterommata leticiae Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata luederwaldti (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Stenoterommata maculata (Bertkau, 1880) – Brazil
• Stenoterommata melloleitaoi Guadanucci & Indicatti, 2004 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata neodiplornata Ghirotto & Indicatti, 2021 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata palmar Goloboff, 1995 – Brazil, Argentina
• Stenoterommata pavesii Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata peri Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata pescador Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata platensis Holmberg, 1881 (type) – Argentina
• Stenoterommata quena Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Stenoterommata sevegnaniae Indicatti, Chavari, Zucatelli-Júnior, Lucas & Brescovit, 2017 – Brazil
• Stenoterommata tenuistyla Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina
• Stenoterommata uruguai Goloboff, 1995 – Argentina

Formerly included:

• S. gounellei Simon, 1886 (Transferred to Acanthogonatus)
• S. guttulata Simon, 1886 (Transferred to Acanthogonatus)
• S. segne Simon, 1886 (Transferred to Acanthogonatus)

See also

• List of Pycnothelidae species

Further reading

• Goloboff. P. A.. 1995. A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part I: species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–189. 224.
• Indicatti. R. P.. etal. 2017. Six new species of silk-lined burrow spider genus Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 (Araneae, Nemesiidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa. 435–456. 4254. 4. 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.2. 28609952.
• Indicatti. R. P.. etal. 2008. Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 529–546. 25. 3. 10.1590/S0101-81752008000300021. free.
• Ferretti. N.. etal. 2010. Arañas Mygalomorphae de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina: clave para la determinación de especies. BioScriba. 15–34. 3.

Notes and References

1. Holmberg. E. L.. 1881. Géneros y especies de arácnidos argentinos nuevos ó poco conocidos. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina. 270–278. 11.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 106. Robert Raven.
3. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
4. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian. 2021. Gen. Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. 16 December 2021.