Alistra

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Dictynoidea

Familia: Hahniidae
Genus: Alistra
Species: A. annulata – A. astrolomae – A. berlandi – A. centralis – A. hamata – A. hippocampa – A. inanga – A. longicauda – A. mangareia – A. mendanai – A. myops – A. napua – A. opina – A. personata – A. pikachu – A. pusilla – A. radleyi – A. reinga – A. stenura – A. sulawesensis – A. taprobanica – A. tuna
Name

Alistra Thorell, 1894

Type species: Alistra longicauda Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1894
Synonyms

Aviola Simon, 1898
Bigois Simon, 1898
Nannonymphaeus Rainbow, 1920
Tawerana Forster, 1970 [syn. Brignoli (1986)]

Type species: Tawerana reinga Forster, 1970, by original designation

References
Primary references

Thorell, T.T.T. 1894. Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 20(4): 1-63. Reference page.

Additional references

Bosmans, R. 1992: Spiders of the family Hahniidae from Sulawesi, Indonesia with remarks on synonymy and zoogeography (Arachnida: Araneae: Hahniidae). Belgian journal of zoology, 122: 83–91.
Brignoli, P.M. 1986: Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 11: 327–332.
Forster, R.R. 1970: The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Desidae, Dictynidae, Hahniidae, Amaurobioididae, Nicodamidae. Otago Museum bulletin, (3)
Ledoux, J.-C. 2004: Spiders of Reunion Island: I. Hahniidae, Ctenidae, Thomisidae and Clubionidae (Araneae). Revue arachnologique, 14: 159–191.
Lin, Y.J., Marusik, Y.M., Gao, C.X., Xu, H., Zhang, X.Q., Wang, Z.Y., Zhu, W.H & Li, S.Q. 2021. Twenty-three new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Asia. Zoological Systematics 46(2): 91–152. DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021201. Open access. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Alistra is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.[4]
Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-one species:[1]

Alistra annulata Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China
Alistra astrolomae (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
Alistra berlandi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
Alistra centralis (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra hamata Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013 – Vietnam
Alistra hippocampa Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China
Alistra inanga (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra longicauda Thorell, 1894 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Alistra mangareia (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra mendanai Brignoli, 1986 – Solomon Is., Réunion
Alistra myops (Simon, 1898) – Philippines
Alistra napua (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra opina (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra personata Ledoux, 2004 – Réunion
Alistra pusilla (Rainbow, 1920) – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
Alistra radleyi (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
Alistra reinga (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
Alistra stenura (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
Alistra sulawesensis Bosmans, 1992 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Alistra taprobanica (Simon, 1898) – Sri Lanka
Alistra tuna (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand

References

"Gen. Alistra Thorell, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 218–251.
Brignoli, P. M. (1986). "Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 11: 331.
Thorell, T. (1894). "Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar". Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 20 (4): 1–63.