Pedinopistha
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pedinopistha
| authority = Karsch, 1880
| type_species = P. finschi
| type_species_authority = Karsch, 1880
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
| synonyms =
- Adrastidia Simon, 1900{{cite journal| last=Suman| first=T. W.| year=1971| title=Spiders of the family Thomisidae in Hawaii| journal=Pacific Insects| volume=12| page=852}}
- Proernus Simon, 1900{{cite journal| last=Roth| first=V. D.| year=1995| title=Karsch's 1880 paper on Hawaiian spiders: ignored or overlooked?| journal=Bishop Museum Occasional Papers| volume=42| page=45}}
}}
Pedinopistha is a genus of Hawaiian running crab spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880.{{cite journal| last=Karsch| first=F.| year=1880| title=Mittheilung über die von Herrn Dr. O. Finsch während seiner polynesischen Reise gesammelten Myriopoden und Arachniden| journal=Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin| pages=77–83| volume=1880| author-link=Ferdinand_Karsch}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains five species, found only on Hawaii:{{cite web| title=Gen. Pedinopistha Karsch, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-04| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2266| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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
References
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Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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