Anahita (spider)
# Anahita (spider)

Anahita is a genus of wandering spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879.

## Species

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-nine species, many from Africa and Asia:

* Anahita aculeata (Simon, 1897) – West, Central Africa
* Anahita blandini Benoit, 1977 – Ivory Coast
* Anahita centralis Benoit, 1977 – Central Africa
* Anahita concrassata Benoit, 1977 – Burundi
* Anahita concreata Benoit, 1977 – Congo
* Anahita concussor Benoit, 1977 – Congo
* Anahita denticulata (Simon, 1884) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Simeulue)
* Anahita faradjensis Lessert, 1929 – Congo
* Anahita fauna Karsch, 1879 (type) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
* Anahita feae (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Myanmar
* Anahita jianfengensis Zhang, Hu & Han, 2011 – China
* Anahita jinsi Jäger, 2012 – China
* Anahita jucunda (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
* Anahita lineata Simon, 1897 – Ivory Coast, Congo
* Anahita lycosina (Simon, 1897) – West Africa
* Anahita mamma Karsch, 1884 – West, Central, East Africa
* Anahita maolan Zhu, Chen & Song, 1999 – China, Taiwan
* Anahita nathani Strand, 1907 – Bahama Is.
* Anahita pallida (L. Koch, 1875) – Egypt, Ethiopia
* Anahita popa Jäger & Minn, 2015 – Myanmar
* Anahita punctata (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
* Anahita punctulata (Hentz, 1844) – USA
* Anahita pygmaea Benoit, 1977 – Ivory Coast
* Anahita samplexa Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000 – China, Korea
* Anahita similis Caporiacco, 1947 – Central, East Africa
* Anahita smythiesi (Simon, 1897) – India
* Anahita syriaca (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
* Anahita wuyiensis Li, Jin & Zhang, 2014 – China
* Anahita zoroides Schmidt & Krause, 1994 – Comoros
