Cteniza

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Cteniza_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBAINV0274_068_14_0002.tif

| taxon = Cteniza

| authority = Latreille, 1829

| type_species = C. sauvagesi

| type_species_authority = (Rossi, 1788)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| C. genevieveae|Canard, 2018 – France (Corsica)

| C. moggridgei|O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – France, Italy

| C. sauvagesi|(Rossi, 1788) – France (Corsica), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily?)}}

| synonyms =

• Aepycephalus Ausserer, 1871{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=1995| title=Zur Kenntnis der Endemiten, zur Evolution und zur Biogeographie der Spinnen Korsikas und Sardiniens, mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae)| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| volume=4| issue=1994| page=358}}
• Sterrhochrotus Simon, 1892{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=159}}

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Cteniza is a small genus of Old World trapdoor spiders found in France and Italy, first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1829.{{citation| last=Latreille| first=P. A.| year=1829| contribution=Les Arachnides| editor-last=Cuvier| editor-first=G.| title=Le règne animal, nouv}} {{as of|2019|04}}, it contains only three species: C. genevieveae, C. moggridgei, and C. sauvagesi.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cteniza Latreille, 1829| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-25| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/650| doi=10.24436/2}}