title: Petaloctenus
text: # Petaloctenus
  
  Petaloctenus is a genus of African wandering spiders first described by Rudy Jocqué & T. Steyn in 1997.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains five species:
  
  * Petaloctenus bossema Jocqué & Steyn, 1997 (type) – Ivory Coast
  * Petaloctenus clathratus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
  * Petaloctenus cupido Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2001 – Guinea
  * Petaloctenus lunatus Van der Donckt & Jocqué, 2001 – Nigeria
  * Petaloctenus songan Jocqué & Steyn, 1997 – Ivory Coast
  