Neoantistea

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Neoantistea
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Immature N. agilis
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drawing of N. agilis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Neoantistea
Gertsch, 1934 [1]
Type species
N. agilis
(Keyserling, 1887)
Species

25, see text

Neoantistea is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Willis J. Gertsch in 1934. [2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bern, Natural History Museum (2019). "Gen. Neoantistea Gertsch, 1934". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Gertsch, W. J. (1934). "Some American spiders of the family Hahniidae". American Museum Novitates (712): 1–32.