Synaphris

Synaphris is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synaphridae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Symphytognathidae in 1973,^[3] and to the Synaphridae in 2003.^[4]

Synaphris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Synaphridae
Genus:	Synaphris Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
S. letourneuxi (Simon, 1884)
Species
11, see text

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains eleven species, found in Asia, Africa, and Europe:^[1]

• Synaphris agaetensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris calerensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris dalmatensis Wunderlich, 1980 – Croatia
• Synaphris franzi Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005 – Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine
• Synaphris letourneuxi (Simon, 1884) (type) – Egypt
• Synaphris orientalis Marusik & Lehtinen, 2003 – Turkmenistan, Iran?
• Synaphris saphrynis Lopardo, Hormiga & Melic, 2007 – Spain, Savage Is.?
• Synaphris schlingeri Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris toliara Miller, 2007 – Madagascar
• Synaphris wunderlichi Marusik & Zonstein, 2011 – Israel

See also

• List of Synaphridae species