Anatea
Genus of spiders
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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[update] it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:
- Anatea[1]
| Anatea | |
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| Anatea formicaria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Anatea Berland, 1927[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. formicaria Berland, 1927 | |
| Species | |
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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]