In synonymy:
Aepycephalus Ausserer, 1871 = Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Wunderlich, 1995a: 358)

type Aranea sauvagesi Rossi, 1788; gender feminine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Aepycephalus Ausserer, 1871a: 150 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05048] (type A. brevidens Doleschall, 1871 = Cteniza sauvagesi (Rossi, 1788)) by Wunderlich, 1995a: 358; synonmy of Sterrhochrotus Simon, 1892 (considered by Raven, 1985a: 159) rejected by Decae et al., 2019: 519 by transfer of the type species, see Ummidia Thorell, 1875.

Transferred to other genera:
Cteniza ferghanensis Kroneberg, 1875 -- see Ummidia

In synonymy:
Cteniza brevidens (Doleschall, 1871) = Cteniza sauvagesi (Rossi, 1788) (Decae et al., 2019: 505).
Cteniza fodiens (Walckenaer, 1805, T from Mygale) = Cteniza sauvagesi (Rossi, 1788) (Ausserer, 1871a: 153).

Nomina dubia:
Cteniza solitaria (Risso, 1826: 159, France or Italy, originally in Mygale) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1596, Bonnet, 1956: 1266.
Cteniza spinosa Blackwall, 1833: 442 (unknown origin) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1452.

Cteniza genevieveae Canard, 2018: 35, f. 2, 3A, 4A, 5A (Df).
Cteniza genevieveae Decae et al., 2019: 500 (possible local variation of another species of Cteniza).

Cteniza fodiens O. Pickard-Cambridge, in Moggridge, 1873: 89, pl. 7 (f, misidentified per Decae et al., 2019: 514).
Cteniza moggridgei O. Pickard-Cambridge, in Moggridge, 1874: 254, pl. 20, f. A (Dmf).
Cteniza moggridgei Simon, 1914: 4, 5, 19 (mf).
Cteniza moggridgei Buchli, 1968: 1, f. 14-27 (mf).
Cteniza moggridgei Trotta, 2005: 149, f. 30 (m).
Cteniza moggridgei Le Peru, 2011: 71, f. 31 (mf).
Cteniza moggridgei Canard, 2018: 31, f. 3B, 4B, 5B (f).
Cteniza moggridgei Decae et al., 2019: 514, f. 2, 21, 25, 29, 33, 35, 38-39, 44, 47-48, 66-69 (mf).

Aranea sauvagii Rossi, 1788: 141 (D; for the spelling sauvagesi see Bonnet, 1956: 1266 and ICZN article 33.3.1).
Aranea sauvagii Rossi, 1790: 138, pl. 2, f. 11 (D).
Aranea sauvagesii Latreille, 1799a: 125, pl. 6, f. 2A-D.
Mygale sauvagesi Latreille, 1804a: 165, pl. 63, f. 7-10 (mf).
Mygale fodiens Walckenaer, 1805: 4 (D, new name for Aranea sauvagesi Rossi, 1788) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060032].
Mygale sauvagesi Dufour, 1820b: 102, pl. 73, f. 3.
Mygale fodiens Walckenaer, 1826: 4, pl. 2, f. 1-2 (Df).
Mygale fodiens Walckenaer, 1837: 237.
Mygalodonta fodiens Simon, 1864: 75.
Nemesia fodiens Carruccio, 1871: 55, pl. 1, f. 6-8, pl. 2, f. 1-9 (Dm).
Aepycephalus brevidens Doleschall, in Ausserer, 1871a: 151 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000534].
Cteniza sauvagei Ausserer, 1871a: 152 (S of Mygale fodiens).
Cteniza sauvagesi Simon, 1873a: 34, pl. 1, f. 1, 5 (f).
Cteniza sauvagesi Simon, 1892a: 95, f. 92-93.
Cteniza sauvagesi Le Peru, 2011: 72, f. 32 (m).
Cteniza sauvagesi Canard, 2018: 31, f. 3C, 4C, 5C (f).
Cteniza sauvagesi Decae et al., 2019: 505, f. 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 36-37, 40-43, 45-46, 49-65 (mf, S of Cteniza brevidens).