Hentziectypus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hentziectypus globosus 1.jpg

| image_caption = H. globosus, adult female

| taxon = Hentziectypus

| authority = Archer, 1946

| type_species = H. globosus

| type_species_authority = (Hentz, 1850)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 12, see text

}}

Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.{{cite journal| last=Archer| first=A. F.| year=1946| title=The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama| journal=Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History| pages=1–67| volume=22| author-link=Allan Frost Archer}} Originally placed with Theridion, it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955,{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1955| title=The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=American Museum Novitates| issue=1718| pages=1–33| author-link=Herbert Walter Levi}} and to its own genus in 2008.{{cite journal| last=Yoshida| first=H.| year=2008| title=A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Acta Arachnologica| volume=57| page=38| doi=10.2476/asjaa.57.37| doi-access=free}} These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea, but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum. Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males.