Cteniza

Cteniza
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Ctenizidae
Genus:	Cteniza; Latreille, 1829
Type species
	C. sauvagesi; (Rossi, 1788)
Species
	C. genevieveae Canard, 2018 – France (Corsica) ; C. moggridgei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – France, Italy ; C. sauvagesi (Rossi, 1788) – France (Corsica), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily?);
Synonyms
	Aepycephalus Ausserer, 1871; Sterrhochrotus Simon, 1892;

Cteniza is a small genus of Old World trapdoor spiders found in France and Italy, first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1829.^[4] As of April 2019^[update], it contains only three species: C. genevieveae, C. moggridgei, and C. sauvagesi.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Cteniza Latreille, 1829". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Zur Kenntnis der Endemiten, zur Evolution und zur Biogeographie der Spinnen Korsikas und Sardiniens, mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 358.
^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 159.
^ Latreille, P. A. (1829), "Les Arachnides", in Cuvier, G. (ed.), Le règne animal, nouv

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