Incasoctenus is a monotypic genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Xenoctenidae, containing the single species, Incasoctenus perplexus. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942,[2] and has only been found in Peru and only the female is known.[1] Originally placed with the wandering spiders, it was moved to the Xenoctenidae in 2017.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Xenoctenidae |
| Genus: | Incasoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1942[1] |
| Species: | I. perplexus
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| Binomial name | |
| Incasoctenus perplexus Mello-Leitão, 1942
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References
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Incasoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1942). "Cinco aranhas novas do Perú". Revista Brasileira de Biologia. 2: 429–434.
- ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.