Pedinopistha

Pedinopistha is a genus of Hawaiian running crab spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880.[4]

Pedinopistha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Pedinopistha
Karsch, 1880[1]
Type species
P. finschi
Karsch, 1880
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains five species, found only on Hawaii:[1]

  • Pedinopistha aculeata (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
  • Pedinopistha finschi Karsch, 1880 (type) – Hawaii
  • Pedinopistha longula (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
  • Pedinopistha schauinslandi (Simon, 1899) – Hawaii
  • Pedinopistha stigmatica (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Pedinopistha Karsch, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Suman, T. W. (1971). "Spiders of the family Thomisidae in Hawaii". Pacific Insects. 12: 852.
  3. Roth, V. D. (1995). "Karsch's 1880 paper on Hawaiian spiders: ignored or overlooked?". Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 42: 45.
  4. Karsch, F. (1880). "Mittheilung über die von Herrn Dr. O. Finsch während seiner polynesischen Reise gesammelten Myriopoden und Arachniden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1880: 77–83.


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