Africactenus
Africactenus is a genus of mostly African wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.[2]
| Africactenus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Africactenus Hyatt, 1954[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. agilior (Pocock, 1900) | |
| Species | |
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Species
As of April 2019 it contains twenty-one species from Africa and India:[1]
- Africactenus acteninus Benoit, 1974 – Congo
- Africactenus agilior (Pocock, 1900) (type) – West, Central Africa
- Africactenus decorosus (Arts, 1912) – Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo
- Africactenus depressus Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- Africactenus evadens Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
- Africactenus fernandensis (Simon, 1910) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- Africactenus ghesquierei (Lessert, 1946) – Congo
- Africactenus giganteus Benoit, 1974 – Congo
- Africactenus guineensis (Simon, 1897) – Sierra Leone
- Africactenus kribiensis Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- Africactenus leleupi Benoit, 1975 – Congo
- Africactenus longurio (Simon, 1910) – West Africa
- Africactenus monitor Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast
- Africactenus pococki Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- Africactenus poecilus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, Gabon
- Africactenus simoni Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- Africactenus sladeni Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- Africactenus tenuitarsis (Strand, 1908) – Cameroon
- Africactenus tridentatus Hyatt, 1954 – Zimbabwe
- Africactenus trilateralis Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- Africactenus unumus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
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References
- "Gen. Africactenus Hyatt, 1954". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- Hyatt, K. H. (1954). "The African spiders of the family Ctenidae in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (12): 877–894.
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