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Family Ctenidae - Wandering Spiders

big purple spider - Ctenus captiosus Tropical Wolf Spider - Ctenus hibernalis Ctenus hibernalis Ctenus exlineae Pale brown Spider - Anahita punctulata Which Spider Is This (Ctenus hibernalis) ?  - Ctenus Ctenus cf. captiosus from East Texas - Ctenus captiosus - female Ctenus cf. captiosus from East Texas - Ctenus captiosus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Ctenidae (Wandering Spiders)
Numbers
3 genera & 7 species found in BugGuide's range.
Range
All U.S. species are found only in the southern U.S. (1)

(But (2) says that Acanthoctenus has become established in some urban areas of NY, CA, & WA.)

Exact distribution for the species below will be added when time permits.

Anahita
- A. punctulata - Southeast USA
Ctenus
- C. captiosus - Florida
- C. exlineae - Northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma
- C. hibernalis - Alabama
- C. minimus - "North America," only known from type specimens
- C. valverdiensis - Texas
Leptoctenus
- L. byrrhus - Texas, Mexico
Works Cited
1.Spiders of the Eastern US, A Photographic Guide
W. Mike Howell and Ronald L. Jenkins. 2004. pearson education.
2.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.