# Cycloctenus

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Genus of spiders

Cycloctenus Cycloctenus sp. (female) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Cycloctenidae Genus: Cycloctenus L. Koch, 1878[1] Type species C. flaviceps L. Koch, 1878 Species 17, see text Synonyms[1][2] Pycnoctenus L. Koch, 1878

***Cycloctenus*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [Australasian](/source/Australasia) [araneomorph](/source/Araneomorphae) spiders in the family [Cycloctenidae](/source/Cycloctenidae), first described by [L. Koch](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch) in 1878.[3] Originally placed with the [nursery web spiders](/source/Nursery_web_spider), it was transferred to the family [Toxopidae](/source/Toxopidae) because of the distinctive arrangement of its eyes, particularly the enlarged posterolateral eyes. It was moved to the Cycloctenidae in 1967.[2]

## Species

As of May 2019[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus&action=edit) it contains seventeen species:[1]

- *[Cycloctenus abyssinus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_abyssinus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Urquhart, 1890 – Australia (New South Wales)

- *[Cycloctenus agilis](/source/Cycloctenus_agilis)* [Forster](/source/Raymond_Robert_Forster), 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus centralis](/source/Cycloctenus_centralis)* Forster, 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus cryptophilus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_cryptophilus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Hickman, 1981 – Australia (Tasmania)

- *[Cycloctenus duplex](/source/Cycloctenus_duplex)* Forster, 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus fiordensis](/source/Cycloctenus_fiordensis)* Forster, 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus flaviceps](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_flaviceps&action=edit&redlink=1)* L. Koch, 1878 ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Australia

- *[Cycloctenus flavus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_flavus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Hickman, 1981 – Australia (Tasmania)

- *[Cycloctenus fugax](/source/Cycloctenus_fugax)* Goyen, 1890 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus infrequens](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_infrequens&action=edit&redlink=1)* Hickman, 1981 – Australia (Tasmania)

- *[Cycloctenus lepidus](/source/Cycloctenus_lepidus)* Urquhart, 1890 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus montivagus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_montivagus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Hickman, 1981 – Australia (Tasmania)

- *[Cycloctenus nelsonensis](/source/Cycloctenus_nelsonensis)* Forster, 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus paturau](/source/Cycloctenus_paturau)* Forster, 1979 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus pulcher](/source/Cycloctenus_pulcher)* Urquhart, 1891 – New Zealand

- *[Cycloctenus robustus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cycloctenus_robustus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (New South Wales)

- *[Cycloctenus westlandicus](/source/Cycloctenus_westlandicus)* Forster, 1964 – New Zealand

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-2) ["Gen. Cycloctenus L. Koch, 1878"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/690). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436%2F2). Retrieved 2019-05-31.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Leht1967_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Leht1967_2-1) Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". *Annales Zoologici Fennici*. **4**: 261.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Koch1878_3-0)** Koch, L. (1878). *Die Arachniden Australiens*.

Taxon identifiers Cycloctenus Wikidata: Q2256817 Wikispecies: Cycloctenus ADW: Cycloctenus AFD: Cycloctenus BioLib: 466595 BOLD: 290147 CoL: 3XWD EoL: 113228 GBIF: 2180295 iNaturalist: 376112 IRMNG: 1261987 ITIS: 871959 NCBI: 1956416 NZOR: 5672aad2-b1f0-4a5d-958f-c35d08b5a10c Open Tree of Life: 4696022 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01926

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