Ctenolophus

Ctenolophus is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904. ^[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae , it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985. ^[3]

Species [ edit ]

As of June 2022 ^[update] it contains 6 species, all found in South Africa : ^[1]

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. doi : 10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-12 .
^ Purcell, W. F. (1904). "Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders" (PDF) . Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society . 15 : 115?173. doi : 10.1080/21560382.1904.9626437 .
^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 182 : 138.

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