Africactenus Explained

Africactenus is a genus of mostly African wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-one species from Africa and India:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. 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. 877–894. 7. 12. 10.1080/00222935408651809.
2. Gen. Africactenus Hyatt, 1954. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.