''Anapis'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders in the family
Anapidae
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than ...
, which consists of small orb weaving spiders all from the
Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
.
The genus includes close to thirty species and 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 Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1895.
Species
it contains twenty-nine species:
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Anapis amazonas''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis anabelleae''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis anchicaya''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis atuncela''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis calima''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis caluga''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Peru
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Anapis carmencita''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis castilla''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Peru, Brazil
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Anapis chiriboga''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Ecuador
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Anapis choroni''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Venezuela
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Anapis churu''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis circinata''
(Simon, 1895) – Venezuela
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Anapis digua''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis discoidalis''
(Balogh & Loksa, 1968) – Brazil
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Anapis felidia''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis guasca
''Anapis'' is a genus of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, which consists of small orb weaving spiders all from the Neotropical realm. The genus includes close to thirty species and was first described by Eugène Simon in ...
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Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis heredia''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Costa Rica
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Anapis hetschki''
(Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
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Anapis keyserlingi''
Gertsch, 1941 – Panama
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Anapis mariebertheae''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis meta''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis mexicana''
Forster, 1958 – Mexico, Belize
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Anapis minutissima''
(Simon, 1903) – Jamaica
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Anapis monteverde''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Costa Rica
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Anapis naranja''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis nawchi''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
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Anapis nevada''
Müller, 1987 – Colombia
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Anapis saladito''
Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia
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Anapis shina''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador
References
Anapidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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