Pistius
Pistius truncatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Pistius Simon, 1875
Type species
Aranea truncata Pallas, 1772
Species
See text
Diversity
11 species

Pistius is a genus of crab spiders with nine described species. Most occur in Asia, only P. truncatus has a palaearctic distribution.

• Pistius barchensis Basu, 1965 (India)
• Pistius bhadurii Basu, 1965 (India)
• Pistius gangulyi Basu, 1965 (India, China)
• Pistius kalimpus Tikader, 1970 (India)
• Pistius kanikae Basu, 1964 (India)
• Pistius robustus Basu, 1965 (India)
• Pistius rotundus Tang & Li, 2010 (China)
• Pistius tikaderi Kumari & Mittal, 1999 (India)
• Pistius truncatus (Pallas, 1772) (Palearctic)
• Pistius undulatus Karsch, 1879 (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Japan)
• Pistius wulingensis Tian, Zhou & Peng, 2018 (China)

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