Pediana
Sign in to savePediana is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Collections
- QM, WAM, AM, QVMAG, MAGNT, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Australia
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sparassidae
- Image
- Pediana regina - Bark Hunstman Spider.jpg
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- taxon author citation
- Simon, 1880
- taxon name
- Pediana
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Pediana is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.
==Species== it contains nine species, endemic entirely to Australia. Pediana horni (Hogg, 1896) – Australia Pediana longbottomi Hirst, 1996 – Australia (Western Australia) Pediana mainae Hirst, 1995 – Australia (Northern Territory) Pediana occidentalis Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) Pediana paradoxa Hirst, 1996 – Australia (South Australia) Pediana regina (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales) Pediana temmei Hirst, 1996 – Australia (South Australia) Pediana tenuis Hogg, 1903 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) Pediana webberae Hirst, 1996 – Australia (Northern Territory)
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