Pystira

The genus Pystira was erected by Eugène Simon in 1901 with the type species Pystira ephippigera, which he had originally placed in a different genus (Hadrosoma, no longer in use) when he first described it in 1885.^[1] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,^[2] but this was rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,^[3] and the genus is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020^[update].^[1]

When synonymized with Omoedus, the genus was placed in the tribe Euophryini in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.^[4] Prószyński placed the separated genus in his informal group euophryines.^[3]

As of September 2025^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:^[1]

• Pystira cyanothorax (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Pystira ephippigera (Simon, 1885) (type species) – Sumatra
• Pystira karschi (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea, Aru Islands
• Pystira nigripalpis (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
• Pystira versicolor Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan