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Mistaria
	Mistaria, first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Mistaria; Lehtinen, 1967
Type species
	M. leucopyga; (Pavesi, 1883)
Species
	See text.

Mistaria is a genus of in the family Agelenidae (funnel weavers) first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[2]

Species

As of August 2021^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

Mistaria fagei (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
Mistaria jaundea (Roewer, 1955) – Cameroon
Mistaria jumbo (Strand, 1913) – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
Mistaria keniana (Roewer, 1955) – Kenya
Mistaria kiboschensis (Lessert, 1915) – Central and East Africa
Mistaria kiwuensis (Strand, 1913) – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mistaria lawrencei (Roewer, 1955) – Zimbabwe
Mistaria leucopyga (Pavesi, 1883) (type species) – Central and East Africa, Yemen
Mistaria longimamillata (Roewer, 1955) – Mozambique
Mistaria moschiensis (Roewer, 1955) – Tanzania
Mistaria mossambica (Roewer, 1955) – Mozambique
Mistaria nairobii (Caporiacco, 1949) – Central and East Africa
Mistaria nyassana (Roewer, 1955) – Malawi
Mistaria nyeupenyeusi G. M. Kioko & S. Q. Li, 2018 – Kenya
Mistaria teteana (Roewer, 1955) – Mozambique
Mistaria zorica (Strand, 1913) – Central and East Africa
Mistaria zuluana (Roewer, 1955) – South Africa

1 2 "Gen. Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
↑ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.

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