''Anyphops'' is a
genus
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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
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:
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A. alticola''
(Lawrence, 1940) β
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
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A. amatolae''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. atomarius''
(Simon, 1887) (
type
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) β Southern Africa
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A. barbertonensis''
(Lawrence, 1940) β
Somalia
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, South Africa
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A. barnardi''
(Lawrence, 1940) β
Zimbabwe
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A. basutus''
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, 1901) β
Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
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A. bechuanicus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
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A. benoiti''
Corronca, 1998 β
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: RΓ©publique de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
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A. braunsi''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. broomi''
(Pocock, 1900) β South Africa
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A. caledonicus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. capensis''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. civicus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. decoratus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. dubiosus''
(Lawrence, 1952) β South Africa
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A. dulacen''
Corronca, 2000 β
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
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A. fitzsimonsi''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. gilli''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. helenae''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. hessei''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. hewitti''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
*''
A. immaculatus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. karrooicus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. kivuensis''
Benoit, 1968 β
Congo
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A. kraussi''
(Pocock, 1898) β South Africa
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A. lawrencei''
( Roewer, 1951) β South Africa
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A. leleupi''
Benoit, 1972 β South Africa
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A. lesserti''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. lignicola''
(Lawrence, 1937) β South Africa
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A. lochiel''
Corronca, 2000 β South Africa
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A. longipedatus''
(Roewer, 1955) β South Africa
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A. lucia''
Corronca, 2005 β South Africa
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A. lycosiformis''
(Lawrence, 1937) β South Africa
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A. maculosus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. marshalli''
(Pocock, 1902) β South Africa
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A. minor''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. montanus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. mumai''
(Corronca, 1996) β South Africa
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A. namaquensis''
(Lawrence, 1940) β Namibia
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A. narcissi''
Benoit, 1972 β Swaziland
*''
A. natalensis''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. ngome''
Corronca, 2005 β South Africa
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A. parvulus''
(Pocock, 1900) β Congo, South Africa
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A. phallus''
(Lawrence, 1952) β South Africa
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A. pococki''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. purcelli''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
*''
A. regalis''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. reservatus''
(Lawrence, 1937) β South Africa
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A. rubicundus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. schoenlandi''
(Pocock, 1902) β South Africa
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A. septemspinatus''
(Lawrence, 1937) β South Africa
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A. septentrionalis''
Benoit, 1975 β
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: RΓ©publique du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
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A. sexspinatus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β Namibia
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A. silvicolellus''
( Strand, 1913) β
Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, ...
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A. smithersi''
(Lawrence, 1940) β Lesotho
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A. spenceri''
(Pocock, 1896) β South Africa
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A. sponsae''
(Lessert, 1933) β Congo,
Angola
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A. stauntoni''
(Pocock, 1902) β St. Helena, South Africa
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A. stridulans''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. thornei''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. transvaalicus''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. tuckeri''
(Lawrence, 1940) β South Africa
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A. tugelanus''
(Lawrence, 1942) β South Africa
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A. whiteae''
(Pocock, 1902) β South Africa
See also
*
List of Selenopidae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Selenopidae
Spiders of Africa
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