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Stenoterommata

Indicatti, Rafael P.;Chavari, João L.;Zucatelli-Júnior, Maurílio;Lucas, Sylvia M.;Brescovit, Antonio D.

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Stenoterommata

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

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Within Vinony's link graph, Stenoterommata is referenced by 12 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

It is catalogued under topics including Araneomorphae genera, Pycnothelidae and Spiders of South America.

Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyPycnothelidae
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Specimen records
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Family
Pycnothelidae
Collections
MNRJ
Recorded in
Brasil

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

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stenoterommata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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