12, see text Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.

[2] Originally placed with Theridion, it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955,[3] and to its own genus in 2008.

[4] These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea, but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum.

Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males.

[4] As of September 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found in the Americas and in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Bermuda:[1] In synonymy: