Stiphropus
Genus of spiders
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Stiphropus is a genus of crab spiders in the family Thomisidae, with about twenty species from Africa and Asia.[1]
male S. affinis
male S. affinis
S. drassiformis (1883 drawing)
| Stiphropus | |
|---|---|
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| S. bisigillatus | |
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| S. affinis from Zimbabwe | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Stiphropus Gerstaecker, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Stiphropus lugubris Gerstäcker, 1873 | |
| Species | |
| Diversity | |
| 22 species | |
Species
As of September 2025[update], this genus includes 22 species:[1]
- Stiphropus affinis Lessert, 1923 – Botswana, South Africa
- Stiphropus bisigillatus Lawrence, 1952 – Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
- Stiphropus dentifrons Simon, 1895 – Gabon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- Stiphropus drassiformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883) – South Africa
- Stiphropus duriusculus (Simon, 1885) – India
- Stiphropus falciformus Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 – China
- Stiphropus gruberi Ono, 1980 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Stiphropus intermedius Millot, 1942 – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
- Stiphropus lippulus Simon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau
- Stiphropus lugubris Gerstaecker, 1873 – East Africa (type species)
- Stiphropus melas Jézéquel, 1966 – Ivory Coast
- Stiphropus minutus Lessert, 1943 – Congo
- Stiphropus monardi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
- Stiphropus myrmecophilus Huang & Lin, 2020 – China
- Stiphropus niger Simon, 1886 – Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
- Stiphropus ocellatus Thorell, 1887 – China, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Stiphropus qianlei Lin & S. Li, 2023 – China
- Stiphropus sangayus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – India, Philippines
- Stiphropus scutatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Stiphropus sigillatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883) – Sri Lanka
- Stiphropus soureni Sen, 1964 – India, Nepal, Bhutan, China
- Stiphropus strandi Spassky, 1938 – Iran, Central Asia