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Africactenus

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Africactenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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As of April 2019 it contains twenty-one species from Africa and India:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Africactenus Hyatt, 1954". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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.