Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily C teninae ( A rachnida, A raneae, C tenidae)

A cladistic analysis based on parsimony was performed to test the monophyly of C teninae. The data matrix comprises 72 terminal taxa scored for 88 characters from external morphology, female internal genitalia, and two behavioural characters. C teninae, as currently delimited, is polyphyletic. The monoplyly of C teninae requires the transfer of two C tenus species to E noploctenus ( A cantheinae) and two C tenus species to A sthenoctenus ( V iridasiinae). C tenus , the genus type, comprises approximately half of the described species of the family, and is polyphyletic as currently delimited. From the 32 C tenus species added to this analysis, only 13 are recognized as C tenus   s.s. : ( C . rectipes ( C . pauloterrai ( C . manauara , C . nigritus (( C . dubius , C . crulsi ) (( C . amphora , C . minor ) ( C . medius , C . paubrasil ( C . fernandae ( C . ornatus , C . vehemens . The results suggest that at least eight new genera should be described to accommodate species misplaced in C tenus . The result also refutes the monophyly of A mauropelma   R aven, S tumkat & G ray, 2001, C elaetycheus   S imon, 1897, L eptoctenus   L .  K och, 1878, and T horiosa   S imon, 1910. The following taxonomic changes are proposed: C tenus inazensis   S trand, 1909 and C tenus miserabilis   S trand, 1916 are transferred to E noploctenus ; C tenus tarsalis   F . O .  P ickard‐ C ambridge, 1902 and C tenus bulimus   S trand, 1909 are transferred to A sthenoctenus   S imon, 1897; C elaetycheus modestus   B ryant, 1942 is transferred to O hvida   P olotow & B rescovit, 2009. © 2014 The Linnean Society of London