Antistea

Antistea is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.^[2] As of May 2019^[update] it contains only two species: A. brunnea and A. elegans. Combined, they have a Holarctic distribution, one Palearctic and the other Nearctic.^[1]

Antistea
Antistea elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hahniidae
Genus:	Antistea Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
A. elegans (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
A. brunnea (Emerton, 1909) – USA, Canada A. elegans (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Japan