Petaloctenus
| Petaloctenus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Petaloctenus Jocqué & Steyn, 1997[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. bossema Jocqué & Steyn, 1997
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| Species | |
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5, see text | |
Petaloctenus is a genus of African wandering spiders first described by Rudy Jocqué & T. Steyn in 1997.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains five species:[1]
- Petaloctenus bossema Jocqué & Steyn, 1997 (type) – Ivory Coast
- Petaloctenus clathratus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
- Petaloctenus cupido Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2001 – Guinea
- Petaloctenus lunatus Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2001 – Nigeria
- Petaloctenus songan Jocqué & Steyn, 1997 – Ivory Coast
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Petaloctenus Jocqué & Steyn, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ Jocqué, R.; Steyn, T. (1997). "Petaloctenus, a new genus of Ctenidae from West-Africa (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 67: 107–117.