Ishania

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Ishania

| image = Ishania sp. (Zodariidae) (4408232984).jpg

| authority=Chamberlin

| type_species = Ishania tentativa

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 35, see text

}}

Ishania is a genus of Central American ant spiders first described in 1925 by Ralph Vary Chamberlin.{{cite journal| last=Chamberlin| first=R. V.| year=1925| title=Diagnoses of new American Arachnida| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=67| pages=209–248}} Originally placed in Agelenidae, it was later moved to Zodariidae in 1965.{{cite journal| last=Roth| first=V. D.| year=1965| title=Genera erroneously placed in the spider families Agelenidae and Pisauridae (Araneida: Arachnida)| journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America| volume=58| issue=3| pages=289–292| doi=10.1093/aesa/58.3.289}}

Species

{{As of|2019|02}}, it contains the following species:{{cite web|title=Zodariidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| access-date=2019-03-07| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3845}}

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