title: Typhistes
text: # Typhistes
  
  Typhistes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2019 it contains four species:
  
  * Typhistes antilope Simon, 1894 – Sri Lanka
  * Typhistes comatus Simon, 1894 (type) – Sri Lanka
  * Typhistes elephas Berland, 1922 – Ethiopia
  * Typhistes gloriosus Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa
  