Isopeda

Isopeda is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.[2]

Isopeda
Isopeda villosa discarding its old exoskeleton
I. vasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Isopeda
L. Koch, 1875[1]
Type species
I. vasta
(L. Koch, 1867)
Species

21, see text

Species

As of October 2019 it contains twenty-one species and one subspecies, found in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and on New Caledonia:[1]

  • 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 igraya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • 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 sungaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • 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
  1. "Gen. Isopeda L. Koch, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  2. Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.


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