Amblypygi

Haddad, Charles, Prendini, Lorenzo, Neethling, Jan-Andries & Dippenaar-Schoeman, Anna Sophia, 2023, The non-acarine Arachnida of the Amathole Mountains, South Africa, Bothalia (a 13) 53 (1), pp. 1-33 : 6

Amblypygi (whip spiders)

when improved, could provide more accurate data on spider biodiversity and levels of endemism. Despite its small area (<0.3% of South Africa), forests still possess the fourth highest spider species richness (646 species) among the eight South African biomes (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 2015).

Only three whip spider species have been recorded from South Africa, all belonging to Phrynichidae . One of these, Damon annulatipes (Wood, 1869) , has only been recorded in the Qonce area ( Weygoldt 1999; Prendini et al. 2005), but probably occurs elsewhere in the Amathole Mountains. Whip spiders are secretive nocturnal arachnids that typically reside under logs or in rock crevices, so they may have evaded past collecting efforts.