Isopeda
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Isopeda
| image = Huntsman_spider_discarding_its_old_exoskeleton_1.jpg
| image_caption = Isopeda villosa discarding its old exoskeleton
| image2 = Isopeda vasta.jpg
| image2_caption = I. vasta
| authority = L. Koch, 1875
| type_species = I. vasta
| type_species_authority = (L. Koch, 1867)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 19, see text
}}{{Distinguish|Isopoda|text=the group of Crustaceans including Woodlice, known as Isopoda}}
Isopeda is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1875| title=Die Arachniden Australiens| publisher=Nürnberg 1| pages=577–740| author-link=Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch}}
Species
{{as of|2022|09}} it contains nineteen species and one subspecies, found in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and on New Caledonia:{{cite web| title=Gen. Isopeda L. Koch, 1875| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-11-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3118| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Isopeda alpina Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Isopeda binnaburra Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland)
- Isopeda brachyseta Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Isopeda canberrana Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Isopeda catmona Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Isopeda deianira (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Isopeda echuca Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Isopeda girraween Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland)
- Isopeda leishmanni Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria)
- Isopeda l. hoggi Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Isopeda magna Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Isopeda montana Hogg, 1903 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
- Isopeda neocaledonica Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
- Isopeda parnabyi Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Isopeda prolata Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Isopeda queenslandensis Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Isopeda subalpina Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Victoria)
- Isopeda vasta (L. Koch, 1867) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
- Isopeda villosa L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Isopeda woodwardi Hogg, 1903 – Australia (South Australia)
In synonymy:
- I. conspersula Strand, 1913 = Isopeda vasta (L. Koch, 1867)
- I. pengellya Hogg, 1903 = Isopeda leishmanni Hogg, 1903
See also
References
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Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch
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