Africactenus
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 | |
(Pocock, 1900)
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Species | |
21, see text |
Africactenus is a genus of mostly African wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.[2]
Species[]
As of April 2019 it contains twenty-one species from Africa and India:[1]
- Benoit, 1974 – Congo
- (Pocock, 1900) (type) – West, Central Africa
- (Arts, 1912) – Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
- (Simon, 1910) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- (Lessert, 1946) – Congo
- Benoit, 1974 – Congo
- (Simon, 1897) – Sierra Leone
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- Benoit, 1975 – Congo
- (Simon, 1910) – West Africa
- Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, Gabon
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
- (Strand, 1908) – Cameroon
- Hyatt, 1954 – Zimbabwe
- Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
- Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "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.
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Ctenidae
- Spiders of Africa
- Ctenidae stubs