Alistra

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

Alistra
Alistra spp. from Queensland, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hahniidae
Genus:	Alistra Thorell, 1894[1]
Type species
A. longicauda Thorell, 1894
Species
21, see text
Synonyms[1]
Aviola Simon, 1898[2] Bigois Simon, 1898[2] Nannonymphaeus Rainbow, 1920[2] Tawerana Forster, 1970[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] 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