''Africactenus'' is a
genus
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of mostly
Africa
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n
wandering spiders first described by K. H. Hyatt in 1954.
Species
it contains twenty-one species from
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
and
India
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:
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Africactenus acteninus''
Benoit, 1974 – Congo
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Africactenus agilior''
(Pocock, 1900) (
type
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) – West, Central Africa
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Africactenus decorosus''
(Arts, 1912) – Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo
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Africactenus depressus''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
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Africactenus evadens''
Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
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Africactenus fernandensis''
(Simon
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, 1910) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
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Africactenus ghesquierei''
(Lessert, 1946) – Congo
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Africactenus giganteus''
Benoit, 1974 – Congo
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Africactenus guineensis''
(Simon, 1897) – Sierra Leone
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Africactenus kribiensis''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
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Africactenus leleupi''
Benoit, 1975 – Congo
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Africactenus longurio''
(Simon, 1910) – West Africa
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Africactenus monitor''
Steyn & Jocqué, 2003 – Ivory Coast
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Africactenus pococki''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
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Africactenus poecilus''
( Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, Gabon
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Africactenus simoni''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
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Africactenus sladeni''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon
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Africactenus tenuitarsis''
(Strand
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, 1908) – Cameroon
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Africactenus tridentatus''
Hyatt, 1954 – Zimbabwe
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Africactenus trilateralis''
Hyatt, 1954 – Cameroon, Gabon
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Africactenus unumus''
Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
References
Ctenidae genera
Ctenidae
Spiders of Africa
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