Anoteropsis cantuaria is a species of wolf spider that is endemic to the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand.

He named the species cantuaria after the New Zealand province of Canterbury, the only place it occurs.

Their body is orange-brown, with a black brown abdomen bearing a faint stripe.

Males can be distinguished from other New Zealand wolf spiders by the shape of the median apophysis on the palpal bulbs – the apophysis on the bulb of A. cantuaria has a slightly more rounded bend than A. lacustris.

Eggs are laid in October, and a female carrying spiderlings in typical wolf spider fashion was found in mid-summer (January).