Petaloctenus

Petaloctenus is a genus of African wandering spiders first described by Rudy Jocqué & T. Steyn in 1997.[2]

Petaloctenus
Scientific classification
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
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 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
  1. "Gen. Petaloctenus Jocqué & Steyn, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. 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.


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