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Cyphononyx aeneipennis
Lucas, 1898 (Gold Coast, Malawi, Northern
Territories, Zimbabwe)
Cyphononyx anguliferus Lucas, 1897 (Ethiopia, Tanzania)
Cyphononyx antarctica (Linnaeus, 1767) (Yemen)
Cyphononyx antennatus
Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe) |
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Cyphononyx auropubens
Arnold, 1932 (Sierra Leone)
Cyphononyx basalis
Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia, South Africa,
Zimbabwe)
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Cyphononyx bretonii Guérin, 1843 (Arabia, Cameroon, Cape Verde
Islands, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory
Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marocco, Mozambique, Niger,
Nigeria, Oman, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Yemen, Zaire) |
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Cyphononyx castaneus castaneus (Klug, )
(Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali,
Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen)
Cyphononyx castaneus simonyi
Kohl, 1906 (Chad, Djibouti, Libya,
Mali, Oman, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen)
Cyphononyx croceicornis Er. 1844 (Arabia, Ethiopia,
Southern Europe)
Cyphononyx decipiens Smith, 1855 (South
Africa)
Cyphononyx dolosus Saussure,
(Madagascar)
Cyphononyx fatalis Gerstaecker, 1857
(Mozambique)
Cyphononyx flavicornis flavicornis Fabricius, 1781
(South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Cyphononyx flavicornis antennatus Smith,
1855 (Ethiopia)
Cyphononyx gowdeyi Turner, 1918 (Uganda)
(extinct)
Cyphononyx grandidieri Saussure, (Madagascar)
Cyphononyx marshalli Arnold, 1937
(Zimbabwe)
Cyphononyx nigrita Fabricius, 1781
(Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda)
Cyphononyx nyasicus
Arnold, 1932 ( Malawi)
Cyphononyx obscurus
Smith, 1855
(Malawi, South Africa)
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Cyphononyx optimus Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia,
Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
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Cyphononyx pan Arnold, 1932 (Uganda)
Cyphononyx promontorii Arnold, 1932
(South Africa)
Cyphononyx purpureipennis Arnold, 1948
(Zimbabwe)
Cyphononyx rathjensi Wahis, 2000 (Saudi
Arabia, Yemen)
Cyphononyx umtaliensis Arnold, 1932 (Malawi,
Zimbabwe)
Cyphononyx
usambarensis Lucas, 1898 (Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda,
Zanzibar) |
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Cyphononyx species
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Distribution
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Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic
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Biology |
Females hunt a variety of spiders including
Rain spiders (Palystes), which they paralyse and drag to a
pre-excavated burrow or crack or crevice, where they lay an egg on the spider. On hatching
the larva feeds on the preserved prey item. |
Reference |
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Credits
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Photographs
© Felicity Grundlingh or
© Duncan Butchart.
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