{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Huntsman_spider_discarding_its_old_exoskeleton_1.jpg | image_caption = ''Isopeda villosa'' discarding its old exoskeleton | image2 = Isopeda vasta.jpg | image2_caption = ''I. vasta'' | taxon = Isopeda | authority = L. Koch, 1875<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''I. vasta'' | type_species_authority = (L. Koch, 1867) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 19, see text }}
{{Distinguish|Isopoda|text=the group of Crustaceans including Woodlice, known as Isopoda}} '''''Isopeda''''' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.<ref name=Koch1875 />
==Species== {{as of|2022|09}} it contains nineteen species and one subspecies, found in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and on New Caledonia:<ref name=wsc /> *''Isopeda alpina'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) *''Isopeda binnaburra'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Isopeda brachyseta'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales) *''Isopeda canberrana'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) *''Isopeda catmona'' <small>Barrion & Litsinger, 1995</small> – Philippines *''Isopeda deianira'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> – New Guinea *''Isopeda echuca'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) *''Isopeda girraween'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Isopeda leishmanni'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria) **''Isopeda l. hoggi'' <small>Simon, 1908</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Isopeda magna'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) *''Isopeda montana'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> – Australia (South Australia, Victoria) *''Isopeda neocaledonica'' <small>Berland, 1924</small> – New Caledonia *''Isopeda parnabyi'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *''Isopeda prolata'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) *''Isopeda queenslandensis'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *''Isopeda subalpina'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Victoria) *''Isopeda vasta'' <small>(L. Koch, 1867)</small> (type) – Australia (Queensland) *''Isopeda villosa'' <small>L. Koch, 1875</small> – Australia (New South Wales) *''Isopeda woodwardi'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> – Australia (South Australia)
'''In synonymy:''' *''I. conspersula'' <small>Strand, 1913</small> = ''Isopeda vasta'' <small>(L. Koch, 1867)</small> *''I. pengellya'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> = ''Isopeda leishmanni'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small>
==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite journal| title=Gen. Isopeda L. Koch, 1875| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-11-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3118| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> <ref name="Koch1875">{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1875| title=Die Arachniden Australiens| publisher=Nürnberg 1| pages=577–740| author-link=Ludwig Carl Christian Koch}}</ref> </references>
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Category:Sparassidae genera Category:Spiders of Oceania Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch
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