Biology:Africactenus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Africactenus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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]

  • 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Africactenus Hyatt, 1954. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/610. Retrieved 2019-05-23. 
  2. ↑ 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2826165 entry




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