
Sankaran, Pradeep M.;Sebastian, Pothalil A.
Africactenus
Sign in to saveAfricactenus is a genus of mostly African wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.
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- Ctenidae
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- ARC-PPRI, USNM
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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Africactenus is a genus of mostly African wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.
==Species== it contains twenty species from Africa and one from India: 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) – Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon Africactenus simoni Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon Africactenus sladeni Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon Africactenus tenuitarsis (Strand, 1908) – Cameroon Africactenus tridentatus Hyatt, 1954 – Zimbabwe, South Africa Africactenus trilateralis Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon Africactenus unumus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
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