{{Short description|Species of spider}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Anyphops longipedatus | authority = (Roewer, 1955)<ref name="roewer1955">{{cite book |last=Roewer |first=C.F. |year=1955 |title=Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex) |publisher=Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique |location=Bruxelles |pages=734}}</ref> | synonyms = {{Species list |Selenops longipes| Lawrence, 1940 }} }}
'''''Anyphops longipedatus''''' is a species of spider in the family Selenopidae.<ref name="wsc">{{cite web |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/33974 |title=Anyphops longipedatus (Roewer, 1955) |publisher=World Spider Catalog |accessdate=2025-09-27}}</ref> It is endemic to South Africa.
==Distribution== ''Anyphops longipedatus'' occurs in three South African provinces: Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and North West. It has been recorded from Johannesburg and Kempton Park in Gauteng, Ladysmith and Natal Midlands in KwaZulu-Natal, and Skeerpoort in North West at altitudes ranging from 1,046 to 1,762 m above sea level.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Habitat and ecology== The species inhabits the Grassland and Savanna biomes and is a free-living cryptozoic nocturnal ground-dwelling spider.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Description== {{see also|Glossary of spider terms}}
Only the female is known. Specimens are somewhat bleached in appearance. The carapace is light yellow brown with indistinct spots and mottling, with boundaries of the cephalic region and striae slightly darker and areas surrounding the eyes blackish. The chelicerae are not darker than the carapace.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
The abdomen above has indistinct spots and mottling in the anterior half and two black bow-shaped transverse bars in the posterior half. The legs have indistinct blackish brown bands, with those at the bases of the anterior tibiae and femora well defined. The anterior tibiae have 5 pairs of inferior spines. Total length is 9.5 mm.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Conservation== ''Anyphops longipedatus'' is listed as Data Deficient due to taxonomic reasons. More sampling is needed to collect males and determine the species' full range.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Taxonomy== The species was originally described by Lawrence (1940) as ''Selenops longipes'' from Johannesburg in Gauteng. However, this name was preoccupied by Petrunkevitch (1930), and Roewer (1955) provided the replacement name ''longipedatus''.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/33974 |title=Anyphops longipedatus (Roewer, 1955) |publisher=World Spider Catalog |accessdate=2025-09-27}}</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=34–35 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7162139}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name="roewer1955">{{cite book |last=Roewer |first=C.F. |year=1955 |title=Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex) |publisher=Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique |location=Bruxelles |pages=734}}</ref> }}
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longipedatus Category:Endemic spiders of South Africa Category:Spiders described in 1955