''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 spiders in the family Anapidae, 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: *'' Anapis amazonas'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis anabelleae'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis anchicaya'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis atuncela'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis calima'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis caluga'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Peru *'' Anapis carmencita'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis castilla'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Peru, Brazil *'' Anapis chiriboga'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Ecuador *'' Anapis choroni'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Venezuela *'' Anapis churu'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis circinata'' (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela *'' Anapis digua'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis discoidalis'' (Balogh & Loksa, 1968) – Brazil *'' Anapis felidia'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis guasca'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis heredia'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Costa Rica *'' Anapis hetschki'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil *'' Anapis keyserlingi'' Gertsch, 1941 – Panama *'' Anapis mariebertheae'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis meta'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis mexicana'' Forster, 1958 – Mexico, Belize *'' Anapis minutissima'' (Simon, 1903) – Jamaica *'' Anapis monteverde'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Costa Rica *'' Anapis naranja'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis nawchi'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador *'' Anapis nevada'' Müller, 1987 – Colombia *'' Anapis saladito'' Platnick & Shadab, 1978 – Colombia *'' Anapis shina'' Dupérré & Tapia, 2018 – Ecuador

References

Anapidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Central America Spiders of South America Taxa named by Eugène Simon {{Anapidae-stub