Ancylotrypa brevipalpis
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| Short palp wafer-lid trapdoor spider | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Genus: | Ancylotrypa |
| Species: | A. brevipalpis |
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| Ancylotrypa brevipalpis (Hewitt, 1916) | |
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Ancylotrypa brevipalpis, commonly known as the short palp wafer-lid trapdoor spider, is a species of spider of the genus Ancylotrypa. It is endemic to South Africa.[1]
Ancylotrypa brevipalpis has a wide distribution across five South African provinces: Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North West. The species occurs at elevations ranging from 275 to 1922 meters above sea level.[2]
