Anahita (spider)
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| female Anahita fauna from Okinawa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Anahita Karsch, 1879[1] |
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| A. fauna Karsch, 1879
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Anahita is a genus of wandering spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.[2][3]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] 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
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Anahita Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens (in German). 36: 57–105.
- ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2839.1.4. Retrieved 2017-07-30.