Isopeda

Isopeda
Isopeda villosa discarding its old exoskeleton
I. vasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Isopeda L. Koch, 18751
Type species
I. vasta (L. Koch, 1867)
Species
19, see text

Isopeda is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.²

As of September 2022 it contains nineteen species and one subspecies, found in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and on New Caledonia:¹

• Isopeda alpina Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Isopeda binnaburra Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland)
• Isopeda brachyseta Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Isopeda canberrana Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Isopeda catmona Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Isopeda deianira (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Isopeda echuca Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Isopeda girraween Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland)
• Isopeda leishmanni Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria)
  • Isopeda l. hoggi Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Isopeda magna Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Isopeda montana Hogg, 1903 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
• Isopeda neocaledonica Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Isopeda parnabyi Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Isopeda prolata Hirst, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Isopeda queenslandensis Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Isopeda subalpina Hirst, 1992 – Australia (Victoria)
• Isopeda vasta (L. Koch, 1867) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
• Isopeda villosa L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Isopeda woodwardi Hogg, 1903 – Australia (South Australia)

In synonymy:

• I. conspersula Strand, 1913 = Isopeda vasta (L. Koch, 1867)
• I. pengellya Hogg, 1903 = Isopeda leishmanni Hogg, 1903