{{Short description|Species of spider}} {{Speciesbox | name = Uitenhage Anyphops Flat Spider | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | status = LC | status_system = SANBI | taxon = Anyphops gilli | authority = (Lawrence, 1940)<ref name="lawrence1940" /> | synonyms = }}
'''''Anyphops gilli''''' is a species of spider in the family Selenopidae.<ref name="wsc" /> It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as '''Uitenhage Anyphops flat spider'''.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Distribution== ''Anyphops gilli'' occurs in three South African provinces: Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Western Cape.<ref name="dippenaar2020" /> Notable localities include Uitenhage, Hogsback in the Amatola Mountains, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and Ngome State Forest.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Habitat and ecology== The species inhabits Forest, Savanna, and Thicket biomes at altitudes ranging from 45 to 1307 m above sea level.<ref name="dippenaar2020" /> These are free-living cryptozoic nocturnal spiders that have been sampled with pitfall traps and from leaf litter in dry-humid wet forest.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Description== {{see also|Glossary of spider terms}} Known only from the male. The carapace is light reddish brown and a little darker anteriorly, with thoracic striae brown and some fine long radiating lines from it. The cephalic region is bisected by a light brown line which is duplicated for most of its length, and the chelicerae are a little darker than the carapace.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
The opisthosoma has some brown spots and wavy cross-bars over most of its surface, with a transverse, procurved, fairly broad black stripe near its posterior extremity. The anterior tibiae have 6 pairs of inferior spines.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
Total length is 8.6 mm.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Conservation== ''Anyphops gilli'' is listed as Least Concern due to its wide geographical range.<ref name="dippenaar2020" /> The species is protected in three State Forests, though more sampling is needed to collect the female.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Taxonomy== The species was originally described by Lawrence in 1940 as ''Selenops gilli'' from Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape.<ref name="lawrence1940" /> It was later transferred to the genus ''Anyphops'' by Benoit in 1968.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/33961 | title=Anyphops gilli (Lawrence, 1940) | work=World Spider Catalog | publisher=Natural History Museum Bern | accessdate=2025-09-27 | doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2020">{{cite book | last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman | first1=A.S. | last2=Haddad | first2=C.R. | last3=Foord | first3=S.H. | last4=Lotz | first4=L.N. | year=2020 | title=The Selenopidae of South Africa. Version 1 | publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide | pages=22 | doi=10.5281/zenodo.7162139}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name="lawrence1940">{{cite journal | last=Lawrence | first=R.F. | year=1940 | title=The genus Selenops (Araneae) in South Africa | journal=Annals of the South African Museum | volume=32 | pages=597 | doi=10.5962/bhl.part.5227}}</ref> }}
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gilli Category:Endemic spiders of South Africa Category:Spiders described in 1940