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Stiphropus
S. bisigillatus
S. affinis from Zimbabwe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Stiphropus Gerstaecker, 1873
Type species
Stiphropus lugubris Gerstäcker, 1873
Species
See text
Diversity
22 species

Stiphropus is a genus of crab spiders in the family Thomisidae, with about twenty species from Africa and Asia.

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  male S. affinis
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  male S. affinis
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  S. drassiformis (1883 drawing)

Species

As of September 2025, this genus includes 22 species:

• Stiphropus affinis Lessert, 1923 – Botswana, South Africa
• Stiphropus bisigillatus Lawrence, 1952 – Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
• Stiphropus dentifrons Simon, 1895 – Gabon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Stiphropus drassiformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883) – South Africa
• Stiphropus duriusculus (Simon, 1885) – India
• Stiphropus falciformus Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 – China
• Stiphropus gruberi Ono, 1980 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Stiphropus intermedius Millot, 1942 – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
• Stiphropus lippulus Simon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau
• Stiphropus lugubris Gerstaecker, 1873 – East Africa (type species)
• Stiphropus melas Jézéquel, 1966 – Ivory Coast
• Stiphropus minutus Lessert, 1943 – Congo
• Stiphropus monardi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
• Stiphropus myrmecophilus Huang & Lin, 2020 – China
• Stiphropus niger Simon, 1886 – Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
• Stiphropus ocellatus Thorell, 1887 – China, Myanmar, Vietnam
• Stiphropus qianlei Lin & S. Li, 2023 – China
• Stiphropus sangayus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – India, Philippines
• Stiphropus scutatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Stiphropus sigillatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883) – Sri Lanka
• Stiphropus soureni Sen, 1964 – India, Nepal, Bhutan, China
• Stiphropus strandi Spassky, 1938 – Iran, Central Asia