Ansiea

Ansiea is a genus of crab 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]

Ansiea
Ansiea tuckeri
Scientific classification
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

See also

• List of Thomisidae species