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Isopeda
Isopeda villosa discarding its old exoskeleton
I. vasta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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

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]

In synonymy:

  • I. conspersula Strand, 1913 = Isopeda vasta (L. Koch, 1867)
  • I. pengellya Hogg, 1903 = Isopeda leishmanni Hogg, 1903

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "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.