{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | parent_authority = Polotow & Jocqué, 2014 | taxon = Arctenus taitensis | authority = Polotow & Jocqué, 2014<ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Arctenus''''' is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Ctenidae. It was first described by Polotow & Jocqué in 2014.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Polotow |first1=D. |last2=Jocqué |first2=R. |date=2014 |title=The new spider genus ''Arctenus'', an afrotropical representative of the Calocteninae (Araneae: Ctenidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=240–247 |doi=10.1636/0161-8202-42.3.240|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229468 }}</ref> {{As of|2023}}, it contains only one species, '''''Arctenus taitensis''''', from Kenya.<ref name="NMBE">{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Gen. '''''Arctenus''''' Polotow & Jocqué, 2014 |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5458 |access-date=14 March 2023 |website=World Spider Catalog Version 24 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern}}</ref>
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Category:Endemic fauna of Kenya Category:Ctenidae Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Taxa named by Rudy Jocqué
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