''Anagraphis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
ground spiders
Ground spiders comprise Gnaphosidae, the seventh largest spider family with over 2,000 described species in over 100 genera distributed worldwide. There are 105 species known to central Europe, and common genera include ''Gnaphosa'', ''Drassodes' ...
that was first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4 ...
in 1893.
Originally placed in the now unrecognized family Prodidomidae, it was moved to the family Gnaphosidae in 2006.
Species
it contains seven species from Asia and Africa:
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Anagraphis incerta''
Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On t ...
, 1941 – Ethiopia
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Anagraphis maculosa''
Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
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Anagraphis minima''
Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa
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Anagraphis ochracea''
( L. Koch, 1867) – Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey
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Anagraphis pallens''
Simon, 1893 (
type
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* Ty ...
) – Libya, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
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Anagraphis pluridentata''
Simon, 1897 – Syria
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Anagraphis pori''
Levy, 1999 – Israel
References
Araneomorphae genera
Gnaphosidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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