Description of three new species of Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880 and new records for I. areia Polotow & Brescovit (Araneae, Ctenidae) from northeastern Brazil Author Pontes Moraes, Isadora M. 0009-0000-6831-2121 isadorapontes91@gmail.com Author Polotow, Daniele 0000-0002-1069-1808 danielepolotow@gmail.com Author Labarque, Facundo M. 0000-0002-1069-1808 danielepolotow@gmail.com Author Da Silva, Marcio B. 0009-0000-6831-2121 isadorapontes91@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2023 2023-07-07 5315 2 177 186 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.2.6 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.2.6 1175-5326 8130409 38EB0CD1-2432-43A9-908D-EF60B3B7EAC2 Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brecovit, 2009 New records. This species was hitherto known only from its type locality in Areia , state of Paraíba ( Polotow & Brescovit 2009 ). Its distribution is expanded to the surrounding areas of Mamanguape , state of Paraíba , and Igarassu , state of Pernambuco ( Fig. 7 ). The type-locality is a Brejo de Altitude forest , a montane humid forest surrounded by semiarid, lowland Caatinga. With the new records, the known species range expands to the typical coastal forest, probably in a disjunct and well-known distribution pattern in the northern Atlantic Rain Forest . Material examined. BRAZIL , Paraíba : Mamanguape , Reserva Biológica Guaribas , 6º44’S , 35º09’W , 1 male , 28–29.X.2011 , E.P. Lorenzo et al. coll. (ColUFPB AR 763) ; Pernambuco , Igarassu , Refúgio Ecológico Charles Darwin (RECD), 7º49’S , 34º52’W , 1 male , 8.VIII.2011 , A.M. De Souza et al. Coll. (ColUFPB AR 247); Usina São José, 7º33’S , 35º02’W , 6 males and 3 females , IX.2013 , E.P. Lorenzo coll. (ColUFPB AR 1606; 1704) .