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Filistatidae  Ausserer, 1867 / Sahastata  Benoit, 1968   3 species

Sahastata nigra (Simon, 1897)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from North Africa presumably belong to other species (Magalhaes et al. 2020)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Oman, United Arab Emirates
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Benoit, 1968) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Benoit, 1968; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Benoit O L G (1968) Synopsis des Filistatidae africains (Araneae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 77: 92-102 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Magalhaes I L F, Stockmann M, Marusik Y M, Zonstein S L (2020) On Sahastata (Araneae: Filistatidae): complementary description of the generotype and two new species from Oman and Morocco. Zootaxa 4899: 215-246 pdf

Marusik, Y. M., Koponen, S. & Zonstein, S (2017c) A revalidation and redescription of Sahastata infuscata, with notes on S. nigra (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 17: 309-311 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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