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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Lycosoidea

Familia: Ctenidae
Subfamilia: Calocteninae
Genus: Anahita
Species: A. aculeata – A. blandini – A. centralis – A. concrassata – A. concreata – A. concussor – A. dangsa – A. denticulata – A. faradjensis – A. fauna – A. feae – A. jianfengensis – A. jinsi – A. jucunda – A. lineata – A. lycosina – A. mamma – A. maolan – A. medog – A. menglun – A. nathani – A. pallida – A. periculosa – A. popa – A. punctata – A. punctulata – A. pygmaea – A. samplexa – A. similis – A. smythiesa – A. syriaca – A. tuniensis – A. wuyiensis – A. zoroides
Nomina dubia

Anahita animosa (Walckenaer, 1837: 331, f, USA, originally in Lycosa) -- Peck, 1981: 157.
Anahita caporiaccoi Roewer, 1951: 447 (replacement name for A. multidentata Caporiacco, 1941b: 120, j, not mf, Ethiopia) -- Benoit, 1977m: 380.
Anahita debilis (Pavesi, 1895a: 523, m, Ethiopia, originally in Phoneutria) -- Benoit, 1977m: 379.
Anahita insularis Strand, 1907d: 738 (j, Madagascar) -- Benoit, 1977m: 380.
Anahita multidentata Schenkel, 1936b: 171 (j, China) -- Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 465.
Anahita unifasciata Simon, 1904c: 445 (m, Congo) -- Benoit, 1977m: 380.

Name

Anahita Karsch, 1879: 99

Type species: Anahita fauna Karsch, 1879, by monotypy

Gender: Feminine
References
Primary references

Karsch, F. 1879. Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 36: 57–105. PDFReference page.

Additional references

Benoit, P.L.G. 1977a. Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) III. Le remembrement du genre Anahita Karsch 1879. Revue Zoologique Africaine 91: 368–380. Reference page.
Benoit, P.L.G. 1977c. Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) IV. Espèces nouvelles du genre Anahita Karsch. Revue Zoologique Africaine 91: 713–720. Reference page.
Jäger, P. 2012a. Asian species of the genera Anahita Karsch 1879, Ctenus Walckenaer 1805 and Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray 2001 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 3429: 1–63. Preview Reference page.
Jäger, P. & Minn, M.Z. 2015. New species in the family Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877 from high altitude habitats in Myanmar, with the first case of penetration of the female’s cuticle by a male in the RTA-clade (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 3994(2): 235–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Li, Z., Jin, C. & Zhang, F. 2014. The genus Anahita from Wuyi Mountains, Fujian, China, with description of one new species (Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 3847(1): 145–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.1.10 Reference page.
Lu, Y., Chu, C., Yao, Z.Y. & Li, S.Q. 2022. Four new species of ctenid spiders (Araneae, Ctenidae) from Southeast Asia, with the first description of the female of Sinoctenus zhui Marusik, Zhang & Omelko, 2012 Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e91350. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e91350. Open access. Reference page.
Zhang, F., Hu, D.-S. & Han, G.-X. 2011. A new species of the genus Anahita Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Hainan Island, China. Zootaxa 2839: 85–88. Preview. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
한국어: 너구리거미속

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

As of April 2019 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

"Gen. Anahita Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
Karsch, F. (1879). "Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens (in German). 36: 57–105.
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.

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