Pediana

Pediana is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[2]

Pediana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Pediana
Simon, 1880[1]
Type species
P. regina
(L. Koch, 1875)
Species

10, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains ten species, found in Australia and on Java:[1]

  • Pediana aurochelis Strand, 1907Indonesia (Java)
  • Pediana horni (Hogg, 1896)Australia
  • Pediana longbottomi Hirst, 1996 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Pediana mainae Hirst, 1995 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Pediana occidentalis Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
  • Pediana paradoxa Hirst, 1996 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Pediana regina (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Pediana temmei Hirst, 1996 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Pediana tenuis Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
  • Pediana webberae Hirst, 1996 – Australia (Northern Territory)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Pediana Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.


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