Anahita (spider)

Anahita is a genus of wandering spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.

Species

it contains twenty-nine species, many from Africa and Asia:

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

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