24, see text Stephanopis is a genus of crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.

[2] It was erected for five then newly described species, including S. altifrons, from Australia.

[3] Stephanopis was characterized by the high cephalic region with unequally sized anterior eyes (ALE larger than AME) disposed in a strongly recurved row, opisthosoma ending in several spiniform projections and dorsoventrally depressed habitus.

[3] According to Pickard-Cambridge, the single specimen used for the description of S. altifrons was dry-pinned.

This may explain why the somatic characters were inadequately described, genitalic features were not mentioned at all, and the illustrations were not detailed enough, making the species unidentifiable.