Spiroctenus
Genus of spiders
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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]
| Spiroctenus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Bemmeridae |
| Genus: | Spiroctenus Simon, 1889[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. personatus Simon, 1888 | |
| Species | |
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30, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of September 2025[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 – Eswatini
- Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
- Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
- S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920
