Caponia

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Distinguish|Calponia}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Caponia sp, Little Eden.jpg

| taxon = Caponia

| authority = Simon, 1887

| type_species = C. natalensis

| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 10, see text

}}

Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1887| title=Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=193–195| volume=7| issue=6}} As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.{{cite book| last1=Leroy| first1=Astri| last2=Leroy| first2=John| title=Spiders of Southern Africa| year=2003| url=https://archive.org/details/spiderssoutherna00lero| url-access=limited| publisher=Struik| page=[https://archive.org/details/spiderssoutherna00lero/page/n72 83]| isbn=9781868729449}}