''Anyphops'' is a

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of wall spiders that was first described by P. L. G. Benoit in 1968.

Species

it contains sixty-four species, found in Africa and on

Saint Helena Saint Helena (, ) is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory. Saint Helena is a volcanic and tropical island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, some 1,874 km ...

: *'' A. alticola'' (Lawrence, 1940) –

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

*'' A. amatolae'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. atomarius'' (Simon, 1887) (

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) – Southern Africa *'' A. barbertonensis'' (Lawrence, 1940) –

Somalia Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...

, South Africa *'' A. barnardi'' (Lawrence, 1940) –

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

*'' A. basutus'' ( Pocock, 1901) –

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

*'' A. bechuanicus'' (Lawrence, 1940) –

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

*'' A. benoiti'' Corronca, 1998 –

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

*'' A. braunsi'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. broomi'' (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa *'' A. caledonicus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. capensis'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. civicus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. decoratus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. dubiosus'' (Lawrence, 1952) – South Africa *'' A. dulacen'' Corronca, 2000 –

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

*'' A. fitzsimonsi'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. gilli'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. helenae'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. hessei'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. hewitti'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. immaculatus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. karrooicus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. kivuensis'' Benoit, 1968 – Congo *'' A. kraussi'' (Pocock, 1898) – South Africa *'' A. lawrencei'' ( Roewer, 1951) – South Africa *'' A. leleupi'' Benoit, 1972 – South Africa *'' A. lesserti'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. lignicola'' (Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa *'' A. lochiel'' Corronca, 2000 – South Africa *'' A. longipedatus'' (Roewer, 1955) – South Africa *'' A. lucia'' Corronca, 2005 – South Africa *'' A. lycosiformis'' (Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa *'' A. maculosus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. marshalli'' (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa *'' A. minor'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. montanus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. mumai'' (Corronca, 1996) – South Africa *'' A. namaquensis'' (Lawrence, 1940) – Namibia *'' A. narcissi'' Benoit, 1972 – Eswatini *'' A. natalensis'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. ngome'' Corronca, 2005 – South Africa *'' A. parvulus'' (Pocock, 1900) – Congo, South Africa *'' A. phallus'' (Lawrence, 1952) – South Africa *'' A. pococki'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. purcelli'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. regalis'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. reservatus'' (Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa *'' A. rubicundus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. schoenlandi'' (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa *'' A. septemspinatus'' (Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa *'' A. septentrionalis'' Benoit, 1975 –

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

*'' A. sexspinatus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – Namibia *'' A. silvicolellus'' (

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, 1913) –

Central Africa Central Africa (French language, French: ''Afrique centrale''; Spanish language, Spanish: ''África central''; Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''África Central'') is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries accordin ...

*'' A. smithersi'' (Lawrence, 1940) – Lesotho *'' A. spenceri'' (Pocock, 1896) – South Africa *'' A. sponsae'' (Lessert, 1933) – Congo,

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

*'' A. stauntoni'' (Pocock, 1902) – St. Helena, South Africa *'' A. stridulans'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. thornei'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. transvaalicus'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. tuckeri'' (Lawrence, 1940) – South Africa *'' A. tugelanus'' (Lawrence, 1942) – South Africa *'' A. whiteae'' (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa

References

Araneomorphae genera Selenopidae Spiders of Africa {{Araneomorphae-stub

Species

See also

References