Ancylotrypa elongata
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| Long-bodied wafer-lid trapdoor spider | |
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| female from South Africa | |
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| adult male from South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Genus: | Ancylotrypa |
| Species: | A. elongata |
| Binomial name | |
| Ancylotrypa elongata Purcell, 1908 | |
Ancylotrypa elongata, commonly known as the long-bodied wafer-lid trapdoor spider, is a species of spider of the genus Ancylotrypa. It occurs in southern Africa.[1]
Ancylotrypa elongata is a southern African endemic known from Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. In South Africa, it has been recorded from Limpopo and Northern Cape provinces (Lephalale, Western Soutpansberg, Turfloop, and Tswalu Game Reserve), at elevations between 1155 and 1523 meters above sea level.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described from Botswana by Purcell in 1908. The male was first described, and the female was redescribed, by Zonstein et al. in 2018.[3]
