{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Piloctenus | image = | image_caption = | authority = Henrard & Jocqué, 2017<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''P. pilosus'' <small>(Thorell, 1899)</small> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Piloctenus''''' is a genus of wandering spiders first described by A. Henrard & Rudy Jocqué in 2017.<ref name=Henr2017>{{cite journal| last1=Henrard| first1=A.| last2=Jocqué| first2=R.| year=2017| title=Morphological and molecular evidence for new genera in the Afrotropical Cteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae) complex.| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| pages=82–154| volume=180| issue=1| doi=10.1111/zoj.12461}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains four species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Piloctenus Henrard & Jocqué, 2017| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-04-01| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5618}}</ref> *''Piloctenus gryseelsi'' <small>Henrard & Jocqué, 2017</small> — Guinea *''Piloctenus haematostoma'' <small>Jocqué & Henrard, 2017</small> — Guinea *''Piloctenus mirificus'' <small>(Arts, 1912)</small> — Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea *''Piloctenus pilosus'' <small>(Thorell, 1899)</small> — West, Central Africa
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Ctenidae Category:Taxa named by Rudy Jocqué
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