# Anatea

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

'''''Anatea''''' is an [ant-mimicking](/source/Ant_mimicry) [genus](/source/genus) of [South Pacific](/source/Oceania) [comb-footed spiders](/source/Theridiidae) that was first described by [Lucien Berland](/source/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](/source/Australia) and on [New Caledonia](/source/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](/source/Anatea_elongata)''
:*''[Anatea formicaria](/source/Anatea_formicaria)''
:*''[Anatea monteithi](/source/Anatea_monteithi)''

Originally placed with the [sac spider](/source/sac_spider)s, 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](/source/Myrmecomorphy) is found amongst the [salticid](/source/salticid)s and [Corinnidae](/source/Corinnidae) families, but it is unusual amongst other [theridiid](/source/theridiid)s.<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>

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

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