Abstract
The family Ctenidae is represented by 40 genera and 490 species in the world, distributed mainly in America, Africa and Asia. Sixty-three species have been recorded from Asia (Jäger 2012), however, only nine species in four genera (Anahita Karsch, 1879; Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805; Leptoctenus L. Koch, 1878 and Sinoctenus Marusik, Zhang & Omelko, 2012) have been reported from China (Platnick 2014). The genus Anahita was established by Karsch in 1879 for the type species A. fauna Karsch, 1879. Silva (2003) found that all species in the genus can be recognised by the absence of the retrolateral tibial apophysis and the presence of a hyaline area in the female epigynum. Jäger (2012) reviewed Asian Anahita, illustrated the type species according to the new materials, transferred four species from the genus Ctenus to Anahita and described one new species. Presently, this genus contains 27 species, among them five species are recorded from China (Platnick 2014): A. fauna Karsch, 1879; A. maolan Zhu, Chen & Song, 1999; A. samplexa Yin, Tang & Gong, 2000; A. jianfengensis Zhang, Hu & Han, 2011 and A. jinsi Jäger, 2012 (Jäger 2012; Yin et al. 2000; Zhang et al. 2011; Zhu et al. 1999).