# Centroctenus

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Centroctenus
| authority = [Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o), 1929<ref name=WSC_g619>{{citation |title=Gen. ''Centroctenus'' Mello-Leitão, 1929 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/619 |access-date=2025-09-17 }}</ref>
| type_species = ''[C. ocelliventer](/source/Centroctenus_ocelliventer)''
| type_species_authority = ([Strand](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1909)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
}}

'''''Centroctenus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [South America](/source/South_America)n [wandering spider](/source/wandering_spider)s (family Ctenidae) first described by [Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o) in 1929.<ref name=Mell1929>{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1929| title=Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel.| journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências| pages=91–112| volume=1}}</ref>

==Species==
{{as of|2025|09}}, the [World Spider Catalog](/source/World_Spider_Catalog) accepted 13 species:<ref name=WSC_sl619>{{citation |title=Species list for ''Centroctenus'' |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/specieslist/619 |access-date=2025-09-17 }}</ref>
*''[Centroctenus acara](/source/Centroctenus_acara)'' <small>[Brescovit](/source/Ant%C3%B4nio_Brescovit), 1996</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus alinahui](/source/Centroctenus_alinahui)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Ecuador
*''[Centroctenus auberti](/source/Centroctenus_auberti)'' <small>([Caporiacco](/source/Lodovico_di_Caporiacco), 1954)</small> – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
*''[Centroctenus brevipes](/source/Centroctenus_brevipes)'' <small>(Keyserling, 1891)</small> – South America
*''[Centroctenus chalkidisi](/source/Centroctenus_chalkidisi)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus claudia](/source/Centroctenus_claudia)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus coloso](/source/Centroctenus_coloso)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Colombia
*''[Centroctenus danielae](/source/Centroctenus_danielae)'' <small>(Brescovit, Cizauskas & Polotow, 2022)</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus dourados](/source/Centroctenus_dourados)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus irupana](/source/Centroctenus_irupana)'' <small>Brescovit, 1996</small> – Bolivia
*''[Centroctenus miriuma](/source/Centroctenus_miriuma)'' <small>Brescovit, 1996</small> – Brazil
*''[Centroctenus ocelliventer](/source/Centroctenus_ocelliventer)'' <small>(Strand, 1909)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Colombia, Brazil
*''[Centroctenus varzea](/source/Centroctenus_varzea)'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil

==References==
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Category:Ctenidae genera
Category:Ctenidae
Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

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