Kiekie (spider)
| Kiekie | |
|---|---|
| Kiekie antioquia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ctenus sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)
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| Species | |
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Kiekie is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018.[2] The type species, Kiekie sinuatipes, was originally described under the name "Ctenus sinuatipes".[3]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes eighteen species:[1]
- Kiekie almae Omelko, 2023 – Panama
- Kiekie antioquia Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia
- Kiekie barrantesi Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie barrocolorado Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
- Kiekie bernali Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Panama
- Kiekie curvipes (Keyserling, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- Kiekie dietrichi Omelko, 2023 – Panama
- Kiekie garifuna Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
- Kiekie griswoldi Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie lamuerte Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Cost Rica
- Kiekie laselva Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie montanense Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
- Kiekie panamensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
- Kiekie sarapiqui Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Panama, Costa Rica (type species)
- Kiekie tirimbina Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie valerioi Hazzi & Hormiga, 2024 – Costa Rica
- Kiekie verbena Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
See also
- Ctenus
- Eldivo, a sister genus
- List of Ctenidae species
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
- ^ Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). "Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4531 (3): 353–373. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2. PMID 30647394.
- ^ 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. 19 (109): 52–106, pl. doi:10.1080/00222939708680507.
Further reading
- Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2014). "Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily Cteninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Ctenidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170 (2): 333–361. doi:10.1111/zoj.12101.
- Petrunkevitch, A. (1925). "Arachnida from Panama". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27: 51–248.
- Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology, London, pp. 89–192
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