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Spiroctenus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Bemmeridae
Genus:	Spiroctenus; Simon, 1889
Type species
	S. personatus; Simon, 1888
Species
	30, see text
Synonyms
	Bemmeris Simon, 1903; Bessia Pocock, 1900; Ctenonemus Simon, 1903;

Spiroctenus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.^[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,^[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[2] and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.^[4] It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.^[2]

Species

As of November 2024^[update] it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:^[1]

Spiroctenus armatus Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
Spiroctenus broomi Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
Spiroctenus cambierae (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
Spiroctenus coeruleus Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
Spiroctenus collinus (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
Spiroctenus curvipes Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Spiroctenus exilis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
Spiroctenus flavopunctatus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus fossorius (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
Spiroctenus fuligineus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
Spiroctenus gooldi (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus inermis (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
Spiroctenus latus Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
Spiroctenus lightfooti (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
Spiroctenus lignicola Lawrence, 1937 – South Africa
Spiroctenus londinensis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Spiroctenus marleyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Spiroctenus minor (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
Spiroctenus pallidipes Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
Spiroctenus pardalina (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus pectiniger (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus personatus Simon, 1888 (type) – Southern Africa
Spiroctenus pilosus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
Spiroctenus punctatus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
Spiroctenus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
Spiroctenus sagittarius (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
Spiroctenus schreineri (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus spinipalpis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa

Nomen dubium

S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 92.
^ ^a ^b Simon, E. (1889). "Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 42: 405–415.
^ Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.