Africactenus

Africactenus
Scientific classification
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 September 2025 ^[update] it contains twenty species from Africa and one from 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) – 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

References

1. "Gen. Africactenus Hyatt, 1954". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-09-21.
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.