Anahita is a genus of wandering spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.
Species it contains twenty-nine species, many from Africa and Asia: 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
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