Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Lycosoidea
Familia: Ctenidae
Genus: Africactenus
Species: A. decorosus – A. evadens – A. monitor
Name
Africactenus Hyatt, 1954
References
Primary references
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 (12)7: 877–894. DOI: 10.1080/00222935408651809
Additional references
Steyn, T.L., van der Donckt, J.F. & Jocqué, R. 2003. The Ctenidae (Araneae) of the rainforests in eastern Cote d'Ivoire. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: Serie in 8° - Sciences Zoologiques 290: 129–166. Reference page.
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]
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
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. doi:10.1080/00222935408651809.
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