Tenedos is a spider genus of the family Zodariidae. It has around 72 species from Central and South America.[1]

Tenedos
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Tenedos
O. P-Cambridge, 1897[1]
Species

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Diversity[1]
72 species

The genus is possibly paraphyletic; it forms an evolutionary lineage with the genus Ishania, but which species should be placed in which genus is not completely resolved.[2]

Species

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As of May 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Tenedos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 3 May 2022
  2. ^ Jocqué, R. & Baert, L. (2002), "A revision of the Neotropical spider genera Tenedos O.P.-Cambridge and Ishania Chamberlin (Araneae, Zodariidae)", Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie, 72: 67–173