Genus of spiders
Kiekie is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018.[2] The type species, Kiekie sinuatipes, was originally described under the name "Ctenus sinuatipes".[3]
As of April 2022[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- K. antioquia Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia
- K. barrocolorado Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama
- K. curvipes (Keyserling, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- K. garifuna Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Guatemala, Honduras
- K. griswoldi Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- K. montanensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
- K. panamensis Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama
- K. sanjose Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- K. sarapiqui Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- K. sinuatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) (type) – Panama, Costa Rica
- K. verbena Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2014). "Phylogenetic analysis of the tropical wolf spider subfamily Cteninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Ctenidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170 (2): 333–361. doi:10.1111/zoj.12101.
- Petrunkevitch, A. (1925). "Arachnida from Panama". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27: 51–248.
- Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology, London, pp. 89–192