World Spider Catalog

Filistatidae Ausserer, 1867

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: author of the family corrected to Simon, 1864: 95 (sub Filistatiens) by Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b: 55, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here; devided in the subfamilies Filistatinae Simon, 1864 and Prithinae Gray, 1995: 80 (Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b: 56, confirmed by Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2022: 557).

Gen. Afrofilistata Benoit, 1968 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00309

N.B.: not a junior synonym of Pritha Lehtinen, 1967 (Gray, 1995: 80, contra Ledoux, 1977).

Afrofilistata fradei (Berland & Millot, 1940) | | West, Central Africa, Sudan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002551

Filistata fradei Berland & Millot, 1940: 150, f. 1-2 (Dmf; N.B.: in legend of f. 2, gerhardti) Original description

Afrofilistata fradei Benoit, 1968b: 100, f. 6-8 (Tmf from Filistata)

Pritha fradei Ledoux, 1977: 73

Afrofilistata fradei Gray, 1995: 80 (implied T from Pritha)

Afrofilistata fradei Siyam, Dunlop & El-Hennawy, 2015: 266, f. 7-9 (f)