Anahita (spider)

Anahita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Ctenidae
Genus:Anahita
Karsch, 1879[1]
Diversity[1]
29 species

Anahita is a genus in the family Ctenidae (wandering spiders).[1][2]

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879, for the type species Anahita fauna.[1][3]

Species

As of July 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[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, Simeulue
  • Anahita faradjensis Lessert, 1929 – Congo
  • Anahita fauna Karsch, 1879 (type species) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
  • Anahita feai (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, 1906 – Bahama Is.
  • Anahita pallida (L. Koch, 1875) – Egypt, Ethiopia
  • Anahita popa Jäger & Minn, 2015 – Myanmar
  • Anahita punctata (Thorell, 1890) – 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 – Comoro Is.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gen. Anahita Simon, 1879". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  2. 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.
  3. Karsch, F. (1879). "Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens (in German). 36: 57–105.


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