In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus, but this was rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017, and the genus is accepted by the World Spider Catalog .
The taxonomic classification of the genus Pystira has been subject to debate. In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison proposed a synonymy with Omoedus, but this was rejected in 2017 by Jerzy Prószyński. The World Spider Catalog now accepts the genus.