| Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
| | Palpopleura albifrons Legrand, 1979 | Pale-faced widow | Gabon |
 |  | Palpopleura deceptor (Calvert, 1899) | Deceptive widow[2] | Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. |
 |  | Palpopleura jucunda Rambur, 1842 | Yellow-veined widow[3] | Angola, Botswana, the DRC, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. |
 |  | Palpopleura lucia (Drury, 1773) | Lucia widow[4] | Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
 |  | Palpopleura portia (Drury, 1773) | Portia widow[5] | Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
 |  | Palpopleura sexmaculata (Fabricius, 1787) | Asian widow | South, East and Southeast Asia |
 |  | Palpopleura vestita Rambur, 1842 | Silver widow | Madagascar |
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