Genus Isopeda L. Koch, 1875

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isopeda Koch, L. 1875. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 577-740 pp. [678].

  Type species:

   Ocypete vasta L. Koch, 1875 by original designation, see Hirst, D.B. 1990. A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 24: 11-26.

Introduction

Hirst (1990) split the genus Isopeda into three genera, Isopeda, Isopedella, and Holconia. Recent phylogenetic analyses conducted by Agnarsson & Rayor (2013) and Gorneau et al. (2022) have demonstrated that while the three genera do form a clade, the genera as currently defined, are not monophyletic. Gorneau et al. (2022) recognises that on the current analyses, synonymy of the three genera is possible, but they have refrained from doing so as major taxonomic change was beyond the scope of the study, and they think further studies of the relationships between the three genera is necessary.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Agnarsson, I. & Rayor, L.S. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the Australian huntsman spiders (Sparassidae, Deleninae): Implications for taxonomy and social behaviour. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 895-905

Gorneau, J.A., Rheims, C.A., Moreau, C.S. & Rayor, L.S. 2022. Huntsman spider phylogeny informs evolution of life history, egg sacs, and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 174: 107530

Hirst, D.B. 1990. A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 24: 11-26

History of changes