Caponia

Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887. As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.

Species
it contains ten species:
 * Caponia braunsi Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
 * Caponia capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
 * Caponia chelifera Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
 * Caponia forficifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
 * Caponia hastifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
 * Caponia karrooica Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
 * Caponia natalensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
 * Caponia secunda Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
 * Caponia simoni Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
 * Caponia spiralifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa