Alistra

Alistra is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.[4]

Alistra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hahniidae
Genus:	Alistra Thorell, 1894[1]
Type species
A. longicauda Thorell, 1894
Species
21, see text
Synonyms[1]
Aviola Simon, 1898[2] Bigois Simon, 1898[2] Nannonymphaeus Rainbow, 1920[2] Tawerana Forster, 1970[3]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-one species:[1]

• Alistra annulata Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China
• Alistra astrolomae (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Alistra berlandi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Alistra centralis (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra hamata Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013 – Vietnam
• Alistra hippocampa Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China
• Alistra inanga (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra longicauda Thorell, 1894 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Alistra mangareia (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra mendanai Brignoli, 1986 – Solomon Is., Réunion
• Alistra myops (Simon, 1898) – Philippines
• Alistra napua (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra opina (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra personata Ledoux, 2004 – Réunion
• Alistra pusilla (Rainbow, 1920) – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
• Alistra radleyi (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
• Alistra reinga (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Alistra stenura (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
• Alistra sulawesensis Bosmans, 1992 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Alistra taprobanica (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
• Alistra tuna (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Alistra Thorell, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 218–251.
3. Brignoli, P. M. (1986). "Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 11: 331.
4. Thorell, T. (1894). "Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar". Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 20 (4): 1–63.