{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Isoctenus | image = Isoctenus_sp.,_Ctenidae,_Atlantic_forest,_northeastern_Bahia,_Brazil_(8003459317).jpg | authority = Bertkau, 1880<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''I. foliifer'' | type_species_authority = Bertkau, 1880 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 15, see text | synonyms = *''Ctenopsis'' <small>Schmidt, 1956</small><ref name=Polo2009>{{cite journal| last1=Polotow| first1=D.| last2=Brescovit| first2=A. D.| year=2009| title=Revision and cladistic analysis of Isoctenus and description of a new neotropical genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae)| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| volume=155| issue=3| page=586| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00452.x| doi-access=free}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Isoctenus''''' is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880.<ref name=Bert1880>{{cite journal| last=Bertkau| first=P.| year=1880| title=Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata im Jahren 1872-73 gensammelten Arachniden.| journal=Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique| pages=1–120| volume=43}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains fifteen species found in Brazil and Argentina:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-25| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/626| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Isoctenus areia'' <small>Polotow & Brescovit, 2009</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus charada'' <small>Polotow & Brescovit, 2009</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus corymbus'' <small>Polotow, Brescovit & Pellegatti-Franco, 2005</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus coxalis'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902)</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus eupalaestrus'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1936</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus foliifer'' <small>Bertkau, 1880</small> (type) – Brazil *''Isoctenus griseolus'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1936)</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus herteli'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1947)</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus janeirus'' <small>(Walckenaer, 1837)</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus malabaris'' <small>Polotow, Brescovit & Ott, 2007</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus minusculus'' <small>(Keyserling, 1891)</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus ordinario'' <small>Polotow & Brescovit, 2009</small> – Brazil, Argentina *''Isoctenus segredo'' <small>Polotow & Brescovit, 2009</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus strandi'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1936</small> – Brazil *''Isoctenus taperae'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1936)</small> – Brazil
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