''Pedinopistha'' is a
genus
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of
Hawaii
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an
running crab spiders that was first described by
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880.
Species
it contains five species, found only on
Hawaii
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:
*''
Pedinopistha aculeata''
(Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1900) – Hawaii
*''
Pedinopistha finschi''
Karsch, 1880 (
type) – Hawaii
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Pedinopistha longula''
(Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
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Pedinopistha schauinslandi''
(Simon, 1899) – Hawaii
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Pedinopistha stigmatica''
(Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
See also
*
List of Philodromidae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Philodromidae
Spiders of Hawaii
Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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