''Pistius'' is a genus of

crab spiders The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of thi ...

with nine described species. Most occur in

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

, only ''P. truncatus'' has a

palaearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

distribution.

Species

* '' 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) Fauna europaea
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Bibliography

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References

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