Ctenus
(Tropical Wolf Spiders)

Ctenus, commonly known as Tropical Wolf Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Ctenidae. Ctenus spiders have been sighted 25 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Ctenus includes 3 countries and 4 states in the United States. Ctenus is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Ctenus

Other Common Names

Tropical Wolf Spiders

Author

Charles Athanase Walckenaer, 1805

Sightings Overview

There have been 25 confirmed sightings of Ctenus (Tropical Wolf Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 15, 2019 by Spider ID member gjoe. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 25 sightings because of certain Ctenus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 8% of the time, Ctenus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 25)
Sex: 0 female and 6 male.
Environment: Ctenus has been sighted 10 times outdoors, and 17 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (7). Ground layer (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1).