type Aranea truncata Pallas, 1772; gender masculine

N.B.: most or all species described from India are probably misplaced and belong in Massuria Thorell, 1887 (Lehtinen, 2004: 175).

Transferred to other genera:
Pistius roonwali Basu, 1964 -- see Massuria
Pistius sreepanchamii Tikader, 1962 -- see Massuria

In synonymy:
Pistius trigonus (Giebel, 1869, T from Thomisus) = Pistius truncatus (Pallas, 1772) (Breitling et al., 2015: 76).
Pistius truncatus (Risso, 1826, T from Filistata) = Pistius truncatus (Pallas, 1772) (Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b: 76).

Nomina dubia:
Pistius barchensis Basu, 1965a: 74, f. 3A-B (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 115.
Pistius bhadurii Basu, 1965a: 71, f. 1A-B (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 115.
Pistius gangulyi Basu, 1965a: 73, f. 2A-B (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 115.
Pistius robustus Basu, 1965a: 75, f. 4A-B (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 115.

Pistius kalimpus Tikader, 1970: 51, f. 29a-b (Df).
Pistius kalimpus Tikader, 1971a: 32, f. 10F-G (f).
Pistius kalimpus Tikader, 1980a: 74, f. 107-108 (f).
Pistius kalimpus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007d: 61, f. 12-15 (Dj).

Pistius kanikae Basu, 1964a: 107, f. 2a-b (Df).
Pistius kanikae Tikader, 1971a: 32, f. 10D-E (f).
Pistius kanikae Tikader, 1980a: 73, f. 105-106 (f).

Pistius rotundus Tang & Li, 2010b: 54, f. 39A-D, 40A-C, 41A-D (Dmf).

Pistius tikaderi Kumari & Mittal, 1999: 17, f. 1-3 (Df).

Aranea truncata Pallas, 1772: 47, pl. 1, f. 15 (Df).
Aranea horrida Fabricius, 1775: 432 (D).
Aranea horrida Olivier, 1789: 225 (D).
Aranea cnici Schrank, 1795: 148 (D).
Aranea truncata Walckenaer, 1802: 230 (D).
Aranea cnici Schrank, 1803: 232 (D).
Thomisus truncatus Walckenaer, 1805: 31.
Thomisus triangularis Risso, 1826: 171 (D).
Thomisus martyni Audouin, 1826: 396, pl. 6, f. 9 (Dmf).
Filistata truncata Risso, 1826: 163 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051356].
Thomisus truncatus Hahn, 1833b: 1, pl. 27, f. C (f).
Thomisus truncatus Walckenaer, 1837: 515 (Dmf).
Thomisus horridus C. L. Koch, 1837a: 49, f. 280 (Df).
Phloeoides horrida Simon, 1864: 432.
Phloeoides truncatus Simon, 1864: 432.
Thomisus horridus Prach, 1866: 606 (Dm).
Thomisus trigonus Giebel, 1869b: 367 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031514].
Thomisus wagae Simon, 1870b: 325 (Df).
Misumena truncatus Thorell, 1872a: 259.
Pistius truncatus Simon, 1875a: 258.
Misumena truncatus Menge, 1876: 452, pl. 75, f. 256 (mf).
Pistius insignitus L. Koch, 1878b: 47, pl. 1, f. 4 (Df; S per Mikhailov, 1997c: 196).
Pistius truncatus Becker, 1882b: 218, pl. 23, f. 1 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Bösenberg, 1902: 369, pl. 34, f. 544 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Simon, 1932: 795, 870, f. 1163-1165 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Tullgren, 1944: 67, pl. 7, f. 118-120 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Locket & Millidge, 1951: 175, f. 87C, 88F (mf).
Filistata truncata Roewer, 1955c: 1510 (nomen dubium).
Pistius truncatus Miller, 1971: 113, pl. XIII, f. 19, pl. XVI, f. 13 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Hidalgo, 1983: 362, f. 1K (f).
Pistius truncatus Qiu, 1983: 95, f. 13.6 (f).
Pistius truncatus Roberts, 1985: 98, f. 38e (mf).
Pistius truncatus Ono, 1985a: 22, f. 5-12 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Izmailova, 1989: 132, f. 124 (f).
Pistius truncatus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 476, f. 1251 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Roberts, 1995: 153, f. (mf).
Pistius truncatus Buchar & Thaler, 1995b: 654, f. 3-4, 6, 8-18 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Roberts, 1998: 162, f. (mf).
Pistius truncatus Lehtinen, 2004: 174, f. 65 (m).
Pistius truncatus Trotta, 2005: 177, f. 484-485 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Almquist, 2007: 493, f. 420a-d (mf).
Pistius truncatus Breitling et al., 2015: 76 (S of Thomisus trigonus).
Pistius truncatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b: 87 (S of Filistata truncata, removed from nomen dubium).

Pistius undulatus Karsch, 1879g: 77 (Df).
Pistius undulatus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 253, pl. 13, f. 308 (f).
Pistius truncatus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 253, pl. 10, f. 168, pl. 13, f. 309 (mf; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Saito, 1934b: 274, pl. 12, f. 4, pl. 14, f. 36 (f; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Saito, 1959: 128, f. 162a-c (f; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Yaginuma, 1960: 100, f. 85.2 (f; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Zhu & Wang, 1963c: 479, f. 30, 40 (mf, misidentified).
Pistius truncatus Arita, 1970: 27, f. 1 (m; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Yaginuma, 1971: 100, f. 85.2-3 (mf; misidentified per Ono, 1985a: 21).
Pistius truncatus Hu, 1984: 334, f. 349.1-2 (mf, misidentified).
Pistius truncatus Zhu & Shi, 1985: 183, f. 165a-c (f; misidentified per Song & Zhu, 1997: 158).
Pistius undulatus Ono, 1985a: 20, f. 1-4 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Yaginuma, 1986a: 207, f. 115.1 (mf).
Pistius truncatus Zhang, 1987: 218, f. 190.1-4 (mf, misidentified).
Pistius undulatus Urita & Song, 1989: 30, f. 3A-D (mf).
Pistius undulatus Chikuni, 1989b: 140, f. 13 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Ono, Marusik & Logunov, 1990: 16, f. 48-50 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Logunov, 1990: 41, f. 5 (m).
Pistius truncatus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 281, f. 293.1-4 (mf, misidentified).
Pistius truncatus Zhao, 1993: 370, f. 181a-c (mf, misidentified).
Pistius undulatus Danilov, 1993a: 63, f. 12 (m).
Pistius truncatus Zhao, 1995: 1087, f. 522a-c (mf; misidentified).
Pistius undulatus Buchar & Thaler, 1995b: 654, f. 1-2, 5, 7 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Song & Zhu, 1997: 158, f. 111A-E (mf).
Pistius undulatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 485, f. 275H, 281F, M (mf).
Pistius undulatus Kim & Gwon, 2001: 39, f. 73-76 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 402, f. 265A-E (mf).
Pistius undulatus Namkung, 2002: 537, f. 42.20a-b (mf).
Pistius undulatus Namkung, 2003: 540, f. 42.20a-b (mf).
Pistius undulatus Lehtinen, 2004: 174, f. 49, 61 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Ono, 2009a: 528, f. 302-305 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Wunderlich, 2011: 328, f. 5-6, ph. 89a-b (mf).
Pistius undulatus Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 452, f. 324A-E (mf).
Pistius undulatus Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2011: 253, f. 37.15, 22 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Kim & Lee, 2012a: 38, f. 15A-E, pl. 9 (mf).
Pistius undulatus Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 294, f. 223A-G (mf).

Pistius wulingensis Tian, Zhou & Peng, 2018: 8, f. 1A-G, 2A-E (Dmf).