Anahita
female Anahita fauna from Okinawa
Scientific 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
29, see text

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

Species

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