{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Centroctenus | authority = Mello-Leitão, 1929<ref name=WSC_g619>{{citation |title=Gen. ''Centroctenus'' Mello-Leitão, 1929 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/619 |access-date=2025-09-17 }}</ref> | type_species = ''C. ocelliventer'' | type_species_authority = (Strand, 1909) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}

'''''Centroctenus''''' is a genus of South American wandering spiders (family Ctenidae) first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929.<ref name=Mell1929>{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1929| title=Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel.| journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências| pages=91–112| volume=1}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2025|09}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted 13 species:<ref name=WSC_sl619>{{citation |title=Species list for ''Centroctenus'' |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/specieslist/619 |access-date=2025-09-17 }}</ref> *''Centroctenus acara'' <small>Brescovit, 1996</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus alinahui'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Ecuador *''Centroctenus auberti'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1954)</small> – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana *''Centroctenus brevipes'' <small>(Keyserling, 1891)</small> – South America *''Centroctenus chalkidisi'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus claudia'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus coloso'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Colombia *''Centroctenus danielae'' <small>(Brescovit, Cizauskas & Polotow, 2022)</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus dourados'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus irupana'' <small>Brescovit, 1996</small> – Bolivia *''Centroctenus miriuma'' <small>Brescovit, 1996</small> – Brazil *''Centroctenus ocelliventer'' <small>(Strand, 1909)</small> (type) – Colombia, Brazil *''Centroctenus varzea'' <small>Brescovit, Torres, Rego & Polotow, 2020</small> – Brazil

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Category:Ctenidae genera Category:Ctenidae Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

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