Africactenus

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 <small>Benoit, 1974</small> – Congo
• Africactenus agilior <small>(Pocock, 1900)</small> (type) – West, Central Africa
• Africactenus decorosus <small>(Arts, 1912)</small> – Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo
• Africactenus depressus <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon
• Africactenus evadens <small>Steyn & Jocqué, 2003</small> – Ivory Coast, Guinea
• Africactenus fernandensis <small>(Simon, 1910)</small> – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Africactenus ghesquierei <small>(Lessert, 1946)</small> – Congo
• Africactenus giganteus <small>Benoit, 1974</small> – Congo
• Africactenus guineensis <small>(Simon, 1897)</small> – Sierra Leone
• Africactenus kribiensis <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon, Gabon
• Africactenus leleupi <small>Benoit, 1975</small> – Congo
• Africactenus longurio <small>(Simon, 1910)</small> – West Africa
• Africactenus monitor <small>Steyn & Jocqué, 2003</small> – Ivory Coast
• Africactenus pococki <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon, Gabon
• Africactenus poecilus <small>(Thorell, 1899)</small> – Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
• Africactenus simoni <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon
• Africactenus sladeni <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon
• Africactenus tenuitarsis <small>(Strand, 1908)</small> – Cameroon
• Africactenus tridentatus <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Africactenus trilateralis <small>Hyatt, 1954</small> – Cameroon, Gabon
• Africactenus unumus <small>Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018</small> – India

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