# Isopeda

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{{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](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch), 1875<ref name=wsc />
| type_species = ''[I. vasta](/source/Isopeda_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](/source/Isopoda)}}
'''''Isopeda''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [huntsman spiders](/source/Sparassidae) that was first described by [Ludwig Carl Christian Koch](/source/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](/source/Papua_New_Guinea), [Australia](/source/Australia), the [Philippines](/source/Philippines), and on [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia):<ref name=wsc />
*''[Isopeda alpina](/source/Isopeda_alpina)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – [Australia](/source/Australia) ([New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales), [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)))
*''[Isopeda binnaburra](/source/Isopeda_binnaburra)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia ([Queensland](/source/Queensland))
*''[Isopeda brachyseta](/source/Isopeda_brachyseta)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales)
*''[Isopeda canberrana](/source/Isopeda_canberrana)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
*''[Isopeda catmona](/source/Isopeda_catmona)'' <small>Barrion & [Litsinger](/source/%3Aspecies%3AJames_Allen_Litsinger), 1995</small> – [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
*''[Isopeda deianira](/source/Isopeda_deianira)'' <small>([Thorell](/source/Tamerlan_Thorell), 1881)</small> – New Guinea
*''[Isopeda echuca](/source/Isopeda_echuca)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
*''[Isopeda girraween](/source/Isopeda_girraween)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland)
*''[Isopeda leishmanni](/source/Isopeda_leishmanni)'' <small>[Hogg](/source/Henry_Roughton_Hogg), 1903</small> – Australia ([Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia), [South Australia](/source/South_Australia), Victoria)
**''[Isopeda l. hoggi](/source/Isopeda_leishmanni)'' <small>[Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1908</small> – Australia (Western Australia)
*''[Isopeda magna](/source/Isopeda_magna)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
*''[Isopeda montana](/source/Isopeda_montana)'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
*''[Isopeda neocaledonica](/source/Isopeda_neocaledonica)'' <small>[Berland](/source/Lucien_Berland), 1924</small> – [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia)
*''[Isopeda parnabyi](/source/Isopeda_parnabyi)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
*''[Isopeda prolata](/source/Isopeda_prolata)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
*''[Isopeda queenslandensis](/source/Isopeda_queenslandensis)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
*''[Isopeda subalpina](/source/Isopeda_subalpina)'' <small>Hirst, 1992</small> – Australia (Victoria)
*''[Isopeda vasta](/source/Isopeda_vasta)'' <small>([L. Koch](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch), 1867)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Australia (Queensland)
*''[Isopeda villosa](/source/Isopeda_villosa)'' <small>L. Koch, 1875</small> – Australia (New South Wales)
*''[Isopeda woodwardi](/source/Isopeda_woodwardi)'' <small>Hogg, 1903</small> – Australia (South Australia)

'''In synonymy:'''
*''I. conspersula'' <small>[Strand](/source/Embrik_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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