South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide: The Mimetidae of South Africa

The family Mimetidae is a small family represented by 8 genera and 154 species that
occur worldwide. The Mimetidae of South Africa has not yet being revised and presently
only three genera represented by four species have been described. Three of the species
are known from southern Africa and only Anansi natalensis (Lawrence, 1938) is a South
African endemic with a wide distribution. Through the South African National Survey of
Arachnida more species have been collected that still need to be determined.