Anasaitis

Anasaitis is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1950.[3] The name is derived from the salticid genus Saitis.

Anasaitis
Female Anasaitis canosa from Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Anasaitis
Bryant, 1950[1]
Type species
A. morgani
(Peckham & Peckham, 1901)
Species

21, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Maeotella Bryant, 1950[2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-one species and one subspecies, found in the Caribbean, the United States, Colombia, and Panama:[1]

  • Anasaitis adorabilis Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis arcuata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
    • Anasaitis a. fulgida Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
  • Anasaitis banksi (Roewer, 1951) – Hispaniola, Puerto Rico
  • Anasaitis brunnea Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis canalis (Chamberlin, 1925) – Panama, Colombia
  • Anasaitis canosa (Walckenaer, 1837) – USA, Cuba
  • Anasaitis cubana (Roewer, 1951) – Cuba
  • Anasaitis decoris Bryant, 1950 – Jamaica
  • Anasaitis elegantissima (Simon, 1888) – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis emertoni (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Anasaitis gloriae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
  • Anasaitis hebetata Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis laxa Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis locuples (Simon, 1888) – Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis morgani (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) (type) – Jamaica, Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis peckhami (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – Dominican Rep.
  • Anasaitis perplexa (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica, Hispaniola
  • Anasaitis placida (Bryant, 1947) – Puerto Rico (Mona Is.)
  • Anasaitis scintilla Bryant, 1950 – Jamaica
  • Anasaitis squamata (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Anasaitis venatoria (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica

References
  1. "Gen. Anasaitis Bryant, 1950". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 15. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1.
  3. Bryant, E. B. (1950). "The salticid spiders of Jamaica". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 103: 163–209.
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