Pseudanapis Simon, 1905

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Genus Pseudanapis Simon, 1905

Type species. Aanapis parocula Simon, 1899 from Sumatra .

Comments. The genus comprises 11 described species distributed across various regions, including Southeast Asia (3 species), Sub-Saharan Africa (2 species), Papua New Guinea (1 species), and the Neotropics (4 species), and it exhibits a wide distribution in the Pacific, with one species introduced to several countries in Europe. Despite its unusual disjunctive distribution, all species known by males exhibit very similar male palps: with two processes extending from the femur, a large patella widening distally, and a very small tibia (smaller than the patella and trochanter). There are no figures illustrating the male palps in ventral view, and it remains unclear where the embolus originates in any of the species except for the generotype and P. aloha Forster, 1959 . The leg formula varies among males and can be either 1423 or 1243.