Paradiestus

Paradiestus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Paradiestus Mello-Leitão, 1915[1]
Type species
P. aurantiacus Mello-Leitão, 1915
Species
5, see text

Paradiestus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1915.[2] It was considered a synonym of Corinna from 1925[3] to 2000.[4]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species, all found in Brazil:[1]

• Paradiestus aurantiacus Mello-Leitão, 1915 (type) – Brazil
• Paradiestus egregius (Simon, 1896) – Brazil
• Paradiestus giganteus (Karsch, 1880) – Brazil
• Paradiestus penicillatus (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Brazil
• Paradiestus vitiosus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil

References

1. "Gen. Paradiestus Mello-Leitão, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1915). "Alguns generos e especies novas de araneidos do Brasil". Brotéria (Ser. Zool.). 13: 129–142.
3. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1925). "Pequenas notas arachnologicas". Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1: 455.
4. Bonaldo, A. B. (2000). "Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica". Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 89: 60.