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Anahita (spider)

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Anahita
female Anahita fauna from Okinawa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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

Species

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

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2839.1.4. Retrieved 2017-07-30.