Alcock, 1898
Carapace usually divided into distinct regions, granular, tuberculate or spinose. Antero-lateral margins with three teeth or granular or spinose lobes behind the exorbital angles. Front bilobed, hardly projecting or spinose; its width about equal to one third of the maximum width of the carapace; its lateral margin with a ventral prolongation separating the antennal fossa from the orbital hiatus. Antennules folded transversely. Basal article of antennae contiguous with the ventral prolongation of the fronto-lateral margin; antennal flagellum included within the orbit. Chelipeds subequal and slightly dissimilar in males, granular or spinose; fingers variable, from obtusely pointed to acute but never enlarged and hollowed. Ambulatory legs granular, spinose, sometimes smooth, or even carinate; sometimes coaptated for fitting into the concavity of the postero-lateral margins of the carapace. Male abdomen divided into five segments. Thoracic sternum relatively narrow. (Guinot 1998)
Type genus: Actaea de Haan, 1833.
Genera treated:
genus Actaea de Haan, 1833
genus Actaeodes Dana, 1851
genus Forestia Guinot, 1976
genus Gaillardiellus Guinot, 1976
genus Novactaea Guinot, 1976
genus Odhneria Sakai, 1983
genus Paractaea Guinot, 1969
genus Paractaeopsis Serène, 1984
genus Psaumis Kossmann, 1877
genus Pseudactaea Serène, 1962
genus Pseudoliomera Odhner, 1925
genus Serenius Guinot, 1976