Anatea

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Anatea.formicaria.svg

| image_caption = Anatea formicaria

| taxon = Anatea

| authority = Berland, 1927

| 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.{{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}} {{as of|2020|05}} it contains three species, found in Australia and on New Caledonia:

• Anatea{{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}}

:*Anatea elongata

:*Anatea formicaria

:*Anatea monteithi

Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the comb-footed spiders in 1967.{{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}}

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.{{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 }}