Anapistula

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Araneoidea

Familia: Symphytognathidae
Genus: Anapistula
Species: A. appendix – A. aquytabuera – A. ataecina – A. australia – A. ayri – A. bebuia – A. benoiti – A. bifurcata – A. boneti – A. caecula – A. choojaiae – A. cuttacutta – A. equatoriana – A. guyri – A. ishikawai – A. jerai – A. orbisterna – A. panensis – A. pocaruguara – A. secreta – A. seychellensis – A. tonga – A. troglobia – A. ybyquyra – A. zhengi
Name

Anapistula Gertsch, 1941

gender: feminine

Type species: Anapistula secreta Willis John Gertsch, 1941, by monotypy
References

Cardoso, P.; Scharff, N. 2009: First record of the spider family Symphytognathidae in Europe and description of Anapistula ataecina sp. n. (Araneae). Zootaxa, 2246: 45–57. Abstract & excerpt
Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2017. On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa 4341(3): 375–399. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. Reference page.
Gertsch, W.J. 1941: Report on some arachnids from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum novitates, (1146) PDF [2]
Harvey, M.S. 1998: A review of the Australasian species of Anapistula Gertsch (Araneae: Symphytognathidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, 19: 111–120.
Lin, Y.; Pham, D.-s.; Li, S. 2009: Six new spiders from caves of northern Vietnam (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae, Ochyroceratidae, Telemidae, Symphytognathidae). Raffles bulletin of zoology, 57: 323–342. PDF
Lin, Y.-C.; Tao, Y.; Li, S.-Q. 2013: Two new species of the genus Anapistula (Araneae, Symphytognathidae) from southern China. Acta zootaxonomica sinica 38(1): 53–58. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.
Rivera-Quiroz, F.A., Petcharad, B. & Miller, J.A. 2021. First records and three new species of the family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Thailand, and the circumscription of the genus Crassignatha Wunderlich, 1995. ZooKeys 1012: 21-53. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1012.57047. Open access. Reference page.
Saaristo, M.I. 1996: Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a new spider family for the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma, 4: 53–56.
Tong, Y.-f.; Li, S.-q. 2006: Symphytognathidae (Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from China. Zootaxa, 1259: 33–38. Abstract & excerpt

Links

Platnick, N.I. 2009. Symphytognathidae in The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5 American Museum of Natural History

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 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