- Female facing
- Female from above
- Male
- Male leg beard
- Male from behind, waving arms 1
- Male from behind, waving arms 2
- Male facing
- Another male, facing
- Female, facing
- Female playing dead upside down
- Female, oblique
- Another female
A small crab spider in low foliage sometimes in great numbers. Adult females body length up to 7mm. The males are smaller but have longer legs I and II and is easily recognised by the large hairy tufts on the metatarsi of leg I. Rather than a pale buff-cream abdomen the male often has a yellow to brown abdomen and generally darker coloured legs. As Mascord points out Stephanopis barpipes females and Sidymella lobata are very similar (Spiders of Australia, 1980). Koch originally listed Sidymella lobata as Stephanopis lobata. Mascord actually saw his female copulating with the unmistakable male Stephanopis barbipes. It seems the Stephanopis barpipes have small spikes instead of holes nearly at the top of the upper surface of the abdomen and dark banding on the near tips of the front legs (see Mascord 1980 p. 95).
Female facing
Female from above
Male
Male leg beard
Male from behind, waving arms 1
Male from behind, waving arms 2
Male facing
Another male, facing
Female, facing
Female playing dead upside down
Female, oblique
Another female
