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]

Kiekie
Kiekie antioquia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Kiekie
Polotow & Brescovit, 2018[1]
Type species
Ctenus sinuatipes
Species

11, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains eleven species:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Kiekie Polotow & Brescovit, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.

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