All the species except one are found in New Zealand and its islands.

[citation needed] As of September 2018[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1] Anoteropsis is known mainly from New Zealand including the Chatham Islands, Snares Islands and Auckland Islands.

[1] New Zealand has 27 species of wolf spiders in 6 genera.

[citation needed] The genus Anoteropsis dominates the country with 21 species alone.

One species, Anoteropsis virgata, is native to Polynesia but is thought to be incorrectly placed in this genus.