Anapistula

Genus of spiders

Anapistula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Symphytognathidae
Genus: Anapistula
Gertsch, 1941[1]
Type species
A. secreta
Gertsch, 1941
Species

25, see text

Anapistula is a genus of dwarf orb-weavers that was first described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker in 1941.[2]

Species

As of September 2019[update] it contains twenty-five species, found in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Oceania, Asia, South America, and Portugal:[1]

  • Anapistula appendix Tong & Li, 2006 – China
  • Anapistula aquytabuera Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula ataecina Cardoso & Scharff, 2009 – Portugal
  • Anapistula australia Forster, 1959 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Anapistula ayri Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula bebuia Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula benoiti Forster & Platnick, 1977 – Congo
  • Anapistula bifurcata Harvey, 1998 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Anapistula boneti Forster, 1958 – Mexico
  • Anapistula caecula Baert & Jocqué, 1993 – Ivory Coast
  • Anapistula cuttacutta Harvey, 1998 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Anapistula equatoriana Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Anapistula guyri Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula ishikawai Ono, 2002 – Japan
  • Anapistula jerai Harvey, 1998 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Kalimantan, Krakatau), Borneo
  • Anapistula orbisterna Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 – Vietnam
  • Anapistula panensis Lin, Tao & Li, 2013 – China
  • Anapistula pocaruguara Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula secreta Gertsch, 1941 (type) – USA to Colombia, Bahama Is., Jamaica
  • Anapistula seychellensis Saaristo, 1996 – Seychelles
  • Anapistula tonga Harvey, 1998 – Tonga
  • Anapistula troglobia Harvey, 1998 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Anapistula ybyquyra Rheims & Brescovit, 2003 – Brazil
  • Anapistula yungas Rubio & González, 2010 – Argentina
  • Anapistula zhengi Lin, Tao & Li, 2013 – China

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Anapistula Gertsch, 1941". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ Gertsch, W. J. (1941). "Report on some arachnids from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone". American Museum Novitates (1146): 1–14.
Taxon identifiers
Anapistula


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