Anatea

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Anatea.formicaria.svg | image_caption = ''Anatea formicaria'' | taxon = Anatea | authority = Berland, 1927<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''A. formicaria'' | type_species_authority = Berland, 1927 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''A. elongata'' Smith, 2017 – Australia (Queensland) * ''A. formicaria'' Berland, 1927 – New Caledonia * ''A. monteithi'' Smith, 2017 – Australia (Queensland) }}

'''''Anatea''''' is an ant-mimicking genus of South Pacific comb-footed spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1927.<ref name=Berl1927>{{cite journal| last=Berland| first=L.| year=1927| title=Sur une araignée myrmécomorphe de Nouvelle Calédonie| journal=Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=52–55| volume=1927| author-link=Lucien_Berland}}</ref> {{as of|2020|05}} it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:

*'''''Anatea'''''<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Anatea Berland, 1927| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-06-08| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3446| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> :*''Anatea elongata'' :*''Anatea formicaria'' :*''Anatea monteithi''

Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the comb-footed spiders in 1967.<ref name=Reis1967>{{cite journal| last=Reiskind| first=J.| last2=Levi| first2=H. W.| year=1967| title=Anatea, an ant-mimicking theridiid spider from New Caledonia (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| volume=74| page=20| author-link2=Herbert_Walter_Levi}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Smith2017">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Helen M. |last2=Harvey |first2=Mark S. |last3=Agnarsson |first3=Ingi |last4=Anderson |first4=Gregory J. |authorlink1=Helen M. Smith |title=Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |date=2017 |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/300977|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Taxa named by Lucien Berland Category:Spiders of Oceania