| Setaphis | |
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| male S. subtilis | |
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| S. carmeli | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae |
| Genus: | Setaphis Simon, 18931 |
| Type species | |
| S. parvula (Lucas, 1846)
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| Species | |
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23, see text | |
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| Range based on locations in WSC | |
Setaphis is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.2
Distribution
Spiders in this genus are found from the Mediterranean to the Philippines and parts of Africa.1
Species
As of September 2025, this genus includes 23 species:1
- Setaphis algerica (Dalmas, 1922) – Spain, Algeria
- Setaphis atlantica (Berland, 1936) – Cape Verde
- Setaphis browni (Tucker, 1923) – Central and Southern Africa, Pakistan, India
- Setaphis canariensis (Simon, 1883) – Canary Islands, Madeira
- Setaphis carmeli (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Canary Islands, Mediterranean, Iran
- Setaphis fuscipes (Simon, 1885) – Morocco, Israel
- Setaphis gomerae (Schmidt, 1981) – Canary Islands, Turkey?
- Setaphis jocquei Platnick & Murphy, 1996 – Ivory Coast
- Setaphis makalali FitzPatrick, 2005 – South Africa
- Setaphis mediterranea Levy, 2009 – Israel
- Setaphis mollis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Morocco, Egypt, Italy (Sicily), Israel
- Setaphis murphyi Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Islands
- Setaphis parvula (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean (type species)
- Setaphis salrei Schmidt, 1999 – Cape Verde
- Setaphis sexmaculata Simon, 1893 – South Africa
- Setaphis simplex (Simon, 1885) – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
- Setaphis solanensis (Tikader & Gajbe, 1977) – India
- Setaphis spiribulbis (Denis, 1952) – Morocco
- Setaphis subtilis (Simon, 1897) – West and South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Middle East, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Philippines
- Setaphis tikaderi (Gajbe, 1993) – India
- Setaphis villiersi (Denis, 1955) – Niger, Somalia, Ethiopia
- Setaphis walteri Platnick & Murphy, 1996 – Canary Islands
- Setaphis wunderlichi Platnick & Murphy, 1996 – Canary Islands
References
References
- "Genus Setaphis". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.