Pedinopistha

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]
Adrastidia Simon, 1900 [2] Proernus Simon, 1900 [3]

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

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] 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

• List of Philodromidae species

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. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.14942.