| Anatea | |
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| Anatea formicaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Anatea Berland, 19271 |
| Type species | |
| 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 1927.2 As of May 2020 it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:
- Anatea1
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
References
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.