| Anatea | |
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| Anatea formicaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Anatea Berland, 1927 |
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| A. formicaria Berland, 1927 | |
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Anatea is an ant-mimicking genus of South Pacific comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1927. As of May 2020 it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:
- Anatea
Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the comb-footed spiders in 1967. 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.
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Anatea Berland, 1927". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- Berland, L. (1927). "Sur une araignée myrmécomorphe de Nouvelle Calédonie". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1927: 52–55.
- Reiskind, J.; Levi, H. W. (1967). "Anatea, an ant-mimicking theridiid spider from New Caledonia (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 74: 20.
- Smith, Helen M.; Harvey, Mark S.; Agnarsson, Ingi; Anderson, Gregory J. (2017). "Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia". Records of the Australian Museum. 69 (1): 1–13. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672.
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