Ischalea

Ischalea is a genus of intertidal spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.^[2] As of September 2019^[update] it contains three species, found in Mauritius, on Madagascar, and the Polynesian Islands: I. incerta, I. longiceps, and I. spinipes.^[1] Originally placed with the Pisauridae, it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 1973,^[3] and to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study.^[4]

Ischalea
Ischalea spinipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Desidae
Genus:	Ischalea L. Koch, 1872[1]
Type species
I. spinipes L. Koch, 1872
Species
I. incerta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Madagascar I. longiceps Simon, 1898 – Mauritius I. spinipes L. Koch, 1872 – New Zealand

See also

• List of Desidae species