{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Cycloctenus | image = Cycloctenus_female.jpg | image_caption = ''Cycloctenus'' sp. (female) | authority = [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]], 1878<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''[[Cycloctenus flaviceps|C. flaviceps]]'' | type_species_authority = L. Koch, 1878 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 17, [[#Species|see text]] | synonyms = *''Pycnoctenus'' <small>[[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]], 1878</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /><ref name=Leht1967 /> }}

'''''Cycloctenus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Australasia]]n [[Araneomorphae|araneomorph]] spiders in the family [[Cycloctenidae]], first described by [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]] in 1878.<ref name=Koch1878>{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1878| title=Die Arachniden Australiens}}</ref> Originally placed with the [[nursery web spider]]s, it was transferred to the family [[Toxopidae]] because of the distinctive arrangement of its eyes, particularly the enlarged posterolateral eyes. It was moved to the Cycloctenidae in 1967.<ref name=Leht1967>{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=261}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains seventeen species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cycloctenus L. Koch, 1878| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-05-31| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/690| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''[[Cycloctenus abyssinus]]'' <small>Urquhart, 1890</small> – Australia (New South Wales) *''[[Cycloctenus agilis]]'' <small>[[Raymond Robert Forster|Forster]], 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus centralis]]'' <small>Forster, 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus cryptophilus]]'' <small>Hickman, 1981</small> – Australia (Tasmania) *''[[Cycloctenus duplex]]'' <small>Forster, 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus fiordensis]]'' <small>Forster, 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus flaviceps]]'' <small>L. Koch, 1878</small> ([[Type species|type]]) – Australia *''[[Cycloctenus flavus]]'' <small>Hickman, 1981</small> – Australia (Tasmania) *''[[Cycloctenus fugax]]'' <small>Goyen, 1890</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus infrequens]]'' <small>Hickman, 1981</small> – Australia (Tasmania) *''[[Cycloctenus lepidus]]'' <small>Urquhart, 1890</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus montivagus]]'' <small>Hickman, 1981</small> – Australia (Tasmania) *''[[Cycloctenus nelsonensis]]'' <small>Forster, 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus paturau]]'' <small>Forster, 1979</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus pulcher]]'' <small>Urquhart, 1891</small> – New Zealand *''[[Cycloctenus robustus]]'' <small>(L. Koch, 1878)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) *''[[Cycloctenus westlandicus]]'' <small>Forster, 1964</small> – New Zealand

==References== {{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]] [[Category:Cycloctenidae]] [[Category:Spiders of Australia]] [[Category:Spiders of New Zealand]]

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