''Elanapis'' is a
genus of
South American
araneomorph spiders in the family
Anapidae
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 231 described species in 58 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than long.
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, containing the single species ''Elanapis aisen''. It was first described by
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
&
Raymond Robert Forster in 1989,
and has only been found in
Chile.
References
Anapidae
Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
Endemic fauna of Chile
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