Beside the latter species, three species are transferred from Ctenus, all of them to Anahita: A. and Nilus marginatus (Walckenaer, 1847) comb. nov., one to Nilus: Bowie barbatus (Thorell, 1895) comb. Five species previously placed in Ctenus are considered nomina dubia, four of them are transferred to Bowie gen. is recognised as a junior synonym of Bowie thorelli comb. Thus, 93 species are grouped, leaving 11 species without a current assignment to any of these groups. Fourteen species groups are proposed on the basis of morphological characters: cladarus-species group (17 species), robustus-species group (14 species), bemywife-species group (2 species), rebelrebel-species group (10 species), youngamericans-species group (3 species), floweri-species group (3 species), scarymonsters-species group (2 species), teenagewildlife-species group (2 species), argentipes-species group (10 species), javanus-species group (5 species), chinagirl-species group (11 species), shakeit-species group (5 species), lodger-species group (3 species) and blackstar-species group (7 species). Formerly unknown sexes are described for the first time for the following species: Bowie martensi comb. Fifty-five new species are described, these are listed, together with the already described species, according to their geographic occurrence and to their affiliation to species groups as far as the latter could be recognised (type species indicated by an asterisk): Bowie hunkydory spec. For thirty-two species, illustrations of their respective copulatory organs, as well as habitus photos, are provided. (Malaysia Peninsula, Singapore, Indonesia: Sumatra), B. Goaensis (Bastawade & Borkar, 2008) comb. Forty-nine valid species are transferred to the new genus (first country/province records of particular species underlined): Bowie martensi (Jäger, 2012) comb. An important and newly introduced character in this respect is –among others– the fused patellar crack of the male palp. Therefore, a combination of morphological characters is used to define all congeners. As is the case in most Ctenidae generally, it was not easy to find apomorphic characters diagnosing this new taxon. After morphological as well as preliminary molecular characters were checked, it was clear that a new genus had to be erected to accommodate this predominantly Asian lineage of ground-dwelling spiders. belongs to the subfamily Cteninae and all members formerly described were placed so far in the genus Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805. A new genus in the spider family Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877 is described from Asia: Bowie gen.
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