Spiroctenus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Spiroctenus

| authority = Simon, 1889

| type_species = S. personatus

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1888

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 30, see text

| synonyms =

  • Bemmeris Simon, 1903{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=92}}
  • Bessia Pocock, 1900
  • Ctenonemus Simon, 1903

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Spiroctenus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1889| title=Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae| journal=Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux| pages=405–415| volume=42| author-link=Eugène Simon}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| page=701| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}} It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.

Species

{{as of|2024|11}} it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2020-07-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2034| doi=10.24436/2}}

Nomen dubium

  • S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal| last=Tucker| first=R. W. E.| year=1917| title=On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae| journal=Annals of the South African Museum| pages=79–138| volume=17}}
  • {{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1903| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| language=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}
  • {{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1902| title=New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum| journal=Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society| pages=348–382| volume=11| doi=10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1642179}}
  • {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1919| title=Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae| journal=Annals of the Transvaal Museum| pages=63–111| volume=6}}

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Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Bemmeridae

Category:Spiders of South Africa

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