Anyphops rubicundus
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| Belfast Anyphops Flat Spider | |
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| Flattie in hotel room, Kruger National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Selenopidae |
| Genus: | Anyphops |
| Species: | A. rubicundus |
| Binomial name | |
| Anyphops rubicundus | |
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Anyphops rubicundus is a species of spider in the family Selenopidae.[2] It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the Belfast Anyphops flat spider.[3]
Anyphops rubicundus is found in South Africa across three provinces: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Western Cape. The species occurs at altitudes ranging from 285 to 1871 m above sea level. Notable locations include Kruger National Park in Limpopo, Belfast Witpoort, Brondal, and Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, and Swartberg Nature Reserve in the Western Cape.[3]
Habitat and ecology
Description
Anyphops rubicundus is known only from the female. The carapace is yellow-brown, with the cephalic area not darker than the thoracic area. There is a marginal and submarginal row of ill-defined blackish spots. The thoracic striae continue onto the cephalic area as a fine blackish median line with a lateral branch on each side. The eye area is blackened.[3][4]
The chelicerae have their inner halves blackened, with the remainder colored as in the carapace. The abdomen has a symmetrical pattern of black spots intermixed with red hairs. The femora of the legs have black irregular spots tending to merge into each other as stripes. The tibiae and metatarsi have weakly defined dark bands. Tibia I and II have 7, metatarsus I and II have 3 inferior pairs of spines.[3]
The total length is 13 mm.[3]
