Anahita (spider)

Anahita is a genus of wandering spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.[2][3]

Anahita
female Anahita fauna from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Anahita
Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
A. fauna
Karsch, 1879
Species

29, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-nine species, many from Africa and Asia:[1]

  • Anahita aculeata (Simon, 1897) – West, Central Africa
  • Anahita blandini Benoit, 1977 – Ivory Coast
  • Anahita centralis Benoit, 1977 – Central Africa
  • Anahita concrassata Benoit, 1977 – Burundi
  • Anahita concreata Benoit, 1977 – Congo
  • Anahita concussor Benoit, 1977 – Congo
  • Anahita denticulata (Simon, 1884) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Simeulue)
  • Anahita faradjensis Lessert, 1929 – Congo
  • Anahita fauna Karsch, 1879 (type) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • Anahita feae (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Myanmar
  • Anahita jianfengensis Zhang, Hu & Han, 2011 – China
  • Anahita jinsi Jäger, 2012 – China
  • Anahita jucunda (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
  • Anahita lineata Simon, 1897 – Ivory Coast, Congo
  • Anahita lycosina (Simon, 1897) – West Africa
  • Anahita mamma Karsch, 1884 – West, Central, East Africa
  • Anahita maolan Zhu, Chen & Song, 1999 – China, Taiwan
  • Anahita nathani Strand, 1907 – Bahama Is.
  • Anahita pallida (L. Koch, 1875) – Egypt, Ethiopia
  • Anahita popa Jäger & Minn, 2015 – Myanmar
  • Anahita punctata (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Anahita punctulata (Hentz, 1844) – USA
  • Anahita pygmaea Benoit, 1977 – Ivory Coast
  • Anahita samplexa Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000 – China, Korea
  • Anahita similis Caporiacco, 1947 – Central, East Africa
  • Anahita smythiesi (Simon, 1897) – India
  • Anahita syriaca (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
  • Anahita wuyiensis Li, Jin & Zhang, 2014 – China
  • Anahita zoroides Schmidt & Krause, 1994 – Comoros

References
  1. "Gen. Anahita Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. Karsch, F. (1879). "Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens (in German). 36: 57–105.
  3. Zhang, F.; Hu, D.-S. & Han, G.-X. (2011). "A new species of the genus Anahita Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Heinan Island, China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2839: 85–88. Retrieved 2017-07-30.


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