| Pystira | |
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| Pystira ephippigera | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Salticidae | 
| Subfamily: | Salticinae | 
| Tribe: | Euophryini | 
| Genus: | Pystira Simon, 1901[1]  | 
| Species | |
Pystira is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.[1]
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 (Hadrosoma, no longer in use) when he first described it in 1885.[1] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,[2] but this was rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,[3] and the genus is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1]
When synonymized with Omoedus, the genus was placed in the tribe Euophryini in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.[4] Prószyński placed the separated genus in his informal group euophryines.[3]
Species
As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]
- Pystira cyanothorax (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
 - Pystira ephippigera (Simon, 1885) (type species) – Sumatra
 - Pystira karschi (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea, Aru Islands
 - Pystira nigripalpis (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
 - Pystira versicolor Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
 
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Gen. Pystira Simon, 1901", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-28
 - ↑ Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, Wayne P. (2015), "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny", Zootaxa, 3938 (1): 001–147, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1, PMID 25947489
 - 1 2 Prószyński, J. (2017), "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 12: 1–133, doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1
 - ↑ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015), "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)", Journal of Arachnology, 43 (3): 231–292, doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292, S2CID 85680279
 
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