Anatea Explained

Anatea is an ant-mimicking genus of South Pacific comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1927.[1] it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:

Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the comb-footed spiders in 1967.[3] Previously considered as a genus with a single species, two new species were identified in tropical Australia in 2017. Myrmecomorphy is found amongst the salticids and Corinnidae families, but it is unusual amongst other theridiids.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Berland. L.. 1927. Sur une araignée myrmécomorphe de Nouvelle Calédonie. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 52–55. 1927. Lucien_Berland.
  2. Web site: Gen. Anatea Berland, 1927. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-06-08. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
  3. Reiskind. J.. Levi. H. W.. 1967. Anatea, an ant-mimicking theridiid spider from New Caledonia (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 74. 20. Herbert_Walter_Levi.
  4. Smith . Helen M. . Harvey . Mark S. . Agnarsson . Ingi . Anderson . Gregory J. . Helen M. Smith . Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia . Records of the Australian Museum . 2017 . 69 . 1 . 1–13 . 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672 . free .

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