Setaphis

Setaphis is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.^[2]

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[1]
Type species
S. parvula (Lucas, 1846)
Species
23, see text
Range based on locations in WSC

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found from the Mediterranean to the Philippines and parts of Africa.^[1]

Species

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes 23 species:^[1]

• 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