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}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

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}}

See also

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