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Ansiea

Ansiea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Ansiea Lehtinen, 2004[1]
Type species
A. tuckeri (Lessert, 1919)
Species
A. buettikeri (Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989) – Saudi Arabia A. tuckeri (Lessert, 1919) – Africa A. tuckeri (Bacelar, 1958) – São Tomé and Príncipe

Ansiea is a genusofcrab spiders that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 2004.^[2] This genus was named in honour of South African arachnologist Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman.^[3] As of June 2020^[update] it contains two species found in Africa and Saudi Arabia: A. buettikeri and A. tuckeri.^[1]

See also[edit]

• List of Thomisidae species

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989). "An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia". Fauna Saudi Arabia. 10: 20–30.
• Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1983). "The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa". Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa. 55: 1–66.
• Bacelar, A. (1958). "Alguns araneídeos das ilhas de São Tomé e do Príncipe". Conferência Internacional dos Africanistas Ocidentais, Sessão. 6 (4): 37–46.
• Millot, J. (1942). "Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Français: Thomisidae". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 65 (2): 1–82.