{{Short description|Species of spider}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Anyphops montanus | authority = (Lawrence, 1940)<ref name="lawrence1940" /> }}
'''''Anyphops montanus''''' is a species of spider in the family Selenopidae.<ref name="wsc" />> It is endemic to South Africa.
==Distribution== ''Anyphops montanus'' is endemic to the Western Cape Province. It has been recorded from Clanwilliam, Matroosberg, Great Winterhoek Mountains, and Hermanus at altitudes ranging from 78 to 980 m above sea level.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Habitat and ecology== The species inhabits the Fynbos and Nama Karoo 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. The carapace is light reddish brown with distinct radii from the thoracic stria, one of these passing straight forwards and terminating behind the median eyes. Areas surrounding the eyes are blackish.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
The abdomen above has numerous minute brown dots forming chevrons, becoming more numerous posteriorly, and is otherwise uniformly light yellow. The legs have black bands on tibiae. Tibiae I and II have 6 pairs of extremely long and strong inferior spines, and metatarsi I and II have 3 similar pairs of spines. Total length is 14.5 mm.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Conservation== ''Anyphops montanus'' is listed as Data Deficient due to taxonomic reasons. The species is known from a few localities all sampled prior to 1940, and more sampling is needed to collect males and determine the species' current range.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/33980 |title=Anyphops montanus (Lawrence, 1940) |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=40–41 |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=555–608}}</ref> }}
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montanus Category:Endemic spiders of South Africa Category:Spiders described in 1940