Published August 1, 2023 | Version v1
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Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit 2018

Description

Genus Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018

Type species. Ctenus sinuatipes F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897, from Central America (Panama).

Remarks. Currently, seven species of Kiekie are known from Panama, including two new species described here. Almost all of them are known from both males and females, except for K. barrocolorado Polotow & Brescovit, 2018, which has been described based on males only. For the diagnosis and description of the genus see Polotow & Brescovit (2018). The genus has a Central American distribution, except for K. antioquia, which is found in South America.

Notes

Published as part of Omelko, Mikhail M., 2023, Two new species of Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from the highlands of Panama, pp. 275-284 in Zootaxa 5323 (2) on page 276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/8204262

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ctenidae
Genus
Kiekie
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Polotow & Brescovit
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kiekie Polotow, 2018 sec. Omelko, 2023

References

  • Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018) Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae). Zootaxa, 4531 (3), 353 - 373. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4531.3.2
  • Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897) On cteniform spiders from the lower Amazons and other regions of North and South America, with a list of all known species of these groups hitherto recorded from the New World. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 19 (109), 52 - 106, pls. 3 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939708680507