Alistra

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Alistra spp.jpg

|image_caption = Alistra spp. from Queensland, Australia

|taxon=Alistra

|authority=Thorell, 1894

|type_species=A. longicauda

|type_species_authority=Thorell, 1894

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=21, see text

|synonyms=*Aviola Simon, 1898

• Bigois Simon, 1898
• Nannonymphaeus Rainbow, 1920{{cite journal|last=Lehtinen|first=P. T.|year=1967|title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha|journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici|volume=4|pages=218–251}}
• Tawerana Forster, 1970{{cite journal|last=Brignoli|first=P. M.|year=1986|title=Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands|journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona|volume=11|page=331}}

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Alistra is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.{{cite journal|last=Thorell|first=T.|year=1894|title=Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar.|journal=Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar|pages=1–63|volume=20|issue=4}}