Antistea

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Antistea

|image=Antistea_elegans.jpg

|image_caption=Antistea elegans

|authority=Simon, 1898

|type_species=A. elegans

|type_species_authority=(Blackwall, 1841)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision={{Specieslist

|A. brunnea|(Emerton, 1909) – USA, Canada

|A. elegans|(Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Japan}}

}}

Antistea is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.{{cite book|last=Simon|first=E|year=1898|title=Histoire naturelle des araignées|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}} {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only two species: A. brunnea and A. elegans. Combined, they have a Holarctic distribution, one Palearctic and the other Nearctic.{{cite journal|title=Gen. Antistea Simon, 1898|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1021|doi=10.24436/2}}