Filistata

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Haplogynae
Superfamilia: Filistatoidea

Familia: Filistatidae
Subfamilia: Filistatinae
Genus: Filistata
Species: F. albens – F. annulipes – F. balouchi – F. canariensis – F. gomerensis – F. insidiatrix – F. lehtineni – F. longiventris – F. lubinae – F. maguirei – F. marginata – F. pseudogomerensis – F. puta – F. pygmaea – F. tarimuensis – F. teideensis – F. tenerifensis – F. wunderlichi – F. xizanensis
Name

Filistata Latreille, 1810
Type species: Filistata testacea Pierre André Latreille, 1810 [=Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775)]

References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crustacés, des arachnides, et des insectes : avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles. Paris: Schoell, 444 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Marusik, Y.M. & Zamani, A. 2015. Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 429–435. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Marusik, Y.M. & Zonstein, S.L. 2014. A synopsis of Middle East Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae), with description of a new species from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 199––205. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Tikader, B.K. 1963b. Studies on some spider fauna of Maharashtra and Mysore states-Part I. Journal of the University of Poona (Science and Technology) 24: 29-54. Reference page.
Zonstein, S.L. & Marusik, Yu.M. 2019. A revision of the spider genus Filistata (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 18(2): 53–93. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.53. Reference page. .
Zonstein, S.L., Marusik, Yu.M. & Grabolle, A. 2016. A remarkably small new species of Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae) from Portugal. Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 49–52. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Filistata is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810.[2]
Species

As of September 2022 it contains 14 species that occur mainly from Eurasia and the Canary Islands, with one species found in Cape Verde:[1]

Filistata albens Zonstein & Marusik, 2019 – Israel
Filistata balouchi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – Iran
Filistata betarif (Magalhaes, Aharon, Ganem & Gavish-Regev, 2022) – Israel
Filistata canariensis Schmidt, 1976 – Canary Is.
Filistata gomerensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
Filistata hasselti Simon, 1906 – Indonesia (Java?)
Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775) (type) – Cape Verde Is., Mediterranean to Turkmenistan
Filistata lehtineni Marusik & Zonstein, 2014 – Azerbaijan, Iran
Filistata lubinae Zonstein & Marusik, 2019 – Israel
Filistata maguirei Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
Filistata pseudogomerensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
Filistata pygmaea Zonstein, Marusik & Grabolle, 2018 – Portugal
Filistata teideensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
Filistata wunderlichi Zonstein & Marusik, 2019 – Spain

References

"Gen. Filistata Latreille, 1810". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
Latreille, P. A. (1810). Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des Animaux composant la classe des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes.