Cicynethus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{for|the island in Greece of this name|Cicynethus (island)}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon=Cicynethus

| authority=Simon

| type_species = Cicynethus acanthopus

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 7, see text

}}

Cicynethus is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1910 by Eugène Simon.{{cite book |last=Simon |first=Eugène| author-link= |date=1910 | editor-last=Schulze |editor-first=L |title= Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.) in Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie.|series= |volume=16 |url= |location=Jena |publisher= Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena|pages=175–218 |isbn=}} {{As of|2024}}, it contains 7 species.{{cite web|title=Zodariidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-03-21| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3826}}