{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Stiphropus bisigillatus 175496371.jpg | image_caption = ''S. bisigillatus'' | image2 = Stiphropus affinis 201830856.jpg | image2_caption = ''S. affinis'' from Zimbabwe | taxon = Stiphropus | authority = Gerstaecker, 1873 | diversity = 22 species | type_species = ''Stiphropus lugubris'' | type_species_authority = Gerstäcker, 1873 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Stiphropus''''' is a genus of '''crab spiders''' in the family Thomisidae, with about twenty species from Africa and Asia.<ref name="wsc" />
<gallery mode=packed heights=140px> Stiphropus affinis 308633550 556836408.jpg|male ''S. affinis'' Stiphropus affinis 308633550 556836137.jpg|male ''S. affinis'' Cyrsillus drassiformis.jpg|''S. drassiformis'' (1883 drawing) </gallery>
==Species== {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes 22 species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Stiphropus affinis'' <small>Lessert, 1923</small> – Botswana, South Africa * ''Stiphropus bisigillatus'' <small>Lawrence, 1952</small> – Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa * ''Stiphropus dentifrons'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Gabon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) * ''Stiphropus drassiformis'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883)</small> – South Africa * ''Stiphropus duriusculus'' <small>(Simon, 1885)</small> – India * ''Stiphropus falciformus'' <small>Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006</small> – China * ''Stiphropus gruberi'' <small>Ono, 1980</small> – Indonesia (Sumatra) * ''Stiphropus intermedius'' <small>Millot, 1942</small> – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa * ''Stiphropus lippulus'' <small>Simon, 1907</small> – Guinea-Bissau * ''Stiphropus lugubris'' <small>Gerstaecker, 1873</small> – East Africa (type species) * ''Stiphropus melas'' <small>Jézéquel, 1966</small> – Ivory Coast * ''Stiphropus minutus'' <small>Lessert, 1943</small> – Congo * ''Stiphropus monardi'' <small>Lessert, 1943</small> – Congo * ''Stiphropus myrmecophilus'' <small>Huang & Lin, 2020</small> – China * ''Stiphropus niger'' <small>Simon, 1886</small> – Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon * ''Stiphropus ocellatus'' <small>Thorell, 1887</small> – China, Myanmar, Vietnam * ''Stiphropus qianlei'' <small>Lin & S. Li, 2023</small> – China * ''Stiphropus sangayus'' <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> – India, Philippines * ''Stiphropus scutatus'' <small>Lawrence, 1927</small> – Namibia * ''Stiphropus sigillatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883)</small> – Sri Lanka * ''Stiphropus soureni'' <small>Sen, 1964</small> – India, Nepal, Bhutan, China * ''Stiphropus strandi'' <small>Spassky, 1938</small> – Iran, Central Asia {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3724 | title=Genus Stiphropus | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=26 September 2025}}</ref> }}
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Category:Thomisidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of Asia