Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
in 1901 with the type species '' Pystira ephippigera'', which he had originally placed in a different genus (''Hadrosoma'', no longer in use) when he first described it in 1885. In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized ''Pystira'' with ''
Omoedus
''Omoedus'' is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).
Taxonomy
''Omoedus'' was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881. In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized ''Pystira'' with ''Omoedus'', but this was rejected by reje ...
'', but this was rejected by
Jerzy Prószyński
Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...
in 2017, and the genus is accepted by the World Spider Catalog .
When synonymized with ''Omoedus'', the genus was placed in the tribe Euophryini in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae. Prószyński placed the separated genus in his informal group euophryines.
Pystira cyanothorax
''Pystira'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Pystira'' was erected by Eugène Simon in 1901 with the type species ''Pystira ephippigera'', which he had originally placed in a different genus (' ...
Sumatra
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Sulawesi
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