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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Setaphis  Simon, 1893   9 species

Setaphis simplex (Simon, 1885)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027960

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Platnick & Murphy 1996)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Platnick & Murphy 1996)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Janssen 1999)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Janssen 1999)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Di Franco 1994b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 1994b)

species

female Epigyne
(Platnick & Murphy 1996)

species

female Epigyne
(Bosmans & Janssen 1999)

species

female Epigyne
(Di Franco 1994b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Platnick & Murphy 1996)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Janssen 1999)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Di Franco 1994b)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy  Removed (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Bosmans & Janssen, 1999) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R. Janssen M (1999) The ground spider genus Setaphis in the Maghreb countries (Araneae Gnaphosidae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 155: 82-90 pdf

Di Franco F (1994b) Nuovi dati sulle specie di Zelotes del Maghreb (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): considerazioni morfologiche e descrizione di Zelotes lagrecai n. sp. Animalia 19: 213-225 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Platnick N I, Murphy J A (1996) A review of the zelotine ground spider genus Setaphis (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3162: 1-23 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-01-2025 Distribution update Detail
05-01-2021 Image insert
05-01-2021 Distribution insert Detail