Setaphis

Setaphis
	male S. subtilis
	S. carmeli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Setaphis; Simon, 1893
Type species
	S. parvula; (Lucas, 1846)
Species
	23, see text
	Range based on locations in WSC

Setaphis is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found from the Mediterranean to the Philippines and parts of Africa.

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes 23 species:

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

1 2 3 "Genus Setaphis". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
↑ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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Setaphis

male S. subtilis

S. carmeli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Setaphis Simon, 1893
Type species
S. parvula (Lucas, 1846)
Species
23, see text

Range based on locations in WSC