Taxon details

Family: Filistatidae / Genus: Filistata

Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-08-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002564]
  • Distribution: Mediterranean to Turkmenistan. Introduced to Azores, Cape Verde, Angola, Yemen (Socotra), Venezuela
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (2771-99a) of Filistata delimbata (Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 4f of Filistata puta (Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b)
Taxonomic references
Aranea insidiatrix Forsskål, 1775: 86 (D).
Aranea insidiatrix Forsskål, 1776: 7, f. G.
Filistata testacea Latreille, 1810: 121 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061933].
Filistata bicolor Latreille, 1817: vol. 11, p. 468 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061934].
Filistata bicolor Walckenaer, 1837: 254, pl. 6, f. 1 (Df).
Teratodes attalicus C. L. Koch, 1838: vol. 5: 6, f. 343 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061935].
Filistata bicolor Lucas, 1846: 97, pl. 1, f. 6 (mf).
Oecobius nigripalpis Dufour, 1863a: 6, pl. 1, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061936].
Filistata bicolor Ausserer, 1867: 140 (S of Teratodes attalicus).
Filistata testacea Thorell, 1873: 498 (S of Filistata bicolor).
Filistata puta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 544 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002569].
Filistata testacea Simon, 1893a: 258 (S of Oecobius nigripalpis).
Filistata insidiatrix Simon, 1895a: 1067 (S of Filistata testacea).
Filistata insidiatrix Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 277 (Dmf).
Filistata insidiatrix Berland, 1912: 50, f. 2-4 (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Berland, 1913c: 36, f. 31-37 (mf).
Filistata delimbata Strand, 1914b: 177 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051352].
Filistata insidiatrix Gerhardt, 1928: 578, f. 1 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Berland, 1932b: 273, f. 400 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Drensky, 1938a: 88, f.
Filistata insidiatrix Gerhardt, 1944: 13, f. 7 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Lehtinen, 1967: 432, f. 20 (m).
Filistata puta Lehtinen, 1967: 235 (synonymized Filistata incondita [misspelt F. infuscata] with F. puta, rejected by Marusik, Koponen & Zonstein, 2017: 309, see genus Sahastata).
Filistata insidiatrix Benoit, 1968b: 93 (probable S of Filistata puta).
Filistata insidiatrix Brignoli, 1978o: 288, f. 1, 3, 9 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Brignoli, 1982a: 68, f. 1-5 (mf, probable S of Filistata puta).
Filistata delimbata Brignoli, 1982a: 70 (nomen dubium).
Filistata insidiatrix Wunderlich, 1987a: 67, f. 44 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Baldacchino et al., 1993: 40, f. 1d (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Ramírez & Grismado, 1997: 326, f. 8, 112 (f).
Filistata insidiatrix Trotta, 2005: 164, f. 269 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Griswold et al., 2005: 27, f. 164E (f).
Filistata insidiatrix Crespo et al., 2009b: 344, f. 1 (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Wunderlich, 2011: 173, f. 1-1a (m).
Filistata insidiatrix Le Peru, 2011: 109, f. 108 (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Marusik & Zonstein, 2014: 200, f. 1-3, 7-8, 11-12, 15-16, 19-22, 25-27 (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Marusik & Zamani, 2015a: 125, f. 1c-d (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Zonstein, Marusik & Grabolle, 2018: 50, f. 13-14 (f).
Filistata insidiatrix Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b: 65, f. 1A-J, 2A-L, 3A-K, 4A-K, 5A-F, 6A-C, 11A-J, 12A-G, 13A-J, 14A-F, 15, 17D-H, 27A (mf, S of Filistata delimbata (removed from nomen dubium) and of Filistata puta).
Filistata insidiatrix Naumova & Deltshev, 2021: 67, f. 8-11 (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2022: 544, f. 2a, 3a, 4a (mf).
Filistata insidiatrix Magalhaes et al., 2022b: 155, f. 3C-D, I, 5B, D, F, 6A-H, 8H, 10A, E, Q (mf, may hide a cryptic diversity).
References

Ausserer, A. (1867). Die Arachniden Tirols nach ihrer horizontalen und verticalen Verbreitung; I. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 137-170, pl. 7-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baldacchino, A. E., Dandria, D., Lanfranco, E. & Schembri, P. J. (1993). Records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist 2(2): 37-59. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1968b). Synopsis des Filistatidae africains (Araneae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 77: 92-102. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1912). Observations sur l'accouplement des araignées. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 9(Notes & Rev.): 47-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, J. (1913c). Note préliminaire sur le cribellum et le calamistrum des araignées cribellates et sur les moeurs de ces araignées. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 51(Notes & Rev.): 23-41. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1932b). Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignées, etc.). In: Encyclopédie entomologique. Paris 16, 1-485. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1978o). Some remarks on the relationships between the Haplogynae, the Semientelegynae and the Cribellatae. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 42: 285-292. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1982a). Contribution à la connaissance des Filistatidae paléarctiques (Araneae). Revue Arachnologique 4: 65-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crespo, L., Cardoso, P., Silva, I. & Menezes, D. (2009b). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Selvagens Islands (Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 343-348. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1938a). Faounata na paiatzite (Araneae) w Beulgaria. II. Podrazred Arachnomorphae; I klon Tetrastica; semeystwa Filistatidae; Dysderidae i Oonopidae. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 11: 81-106. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dufour, L. (1863a). Sur trois aranéides de Guerrera, au sud de l'Algérie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 3: 5-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Forsskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], pp. 85-86. [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Forsskål, P. (1776). Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], 43 pls. (Araneae, pls. 24-25). [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerhardt, U. (1944). Die Formwandlungen eines Organtypus, dargestellt an dem Taster der männlichen Spinnen. Die Gestalt, Halle (Saale) 17: 9-24, pl. 1-5. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerhardt, U. (1928). Biologische Studien an griechischen, corsischen und deutschen Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 10(4): 576-675. doi:10.1007/BF00419324 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Griswold, C. E., Ramírez, M. J., Coddington, J. A. & Platnick, N. I. (2005). Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(Suppl. II): 1-324. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1838). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Vierter Band, pp. 109-144, pl. 139-144 (f. 319-339); Fünfter Band, pp. 1-124, pl. 145-174 (f. 340-417). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Latreille, P. A. (1810). Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des Animaux composant la classe des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris, 444 pp. (Araneae, pp. 119-129). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Latreille, P. A. (1817). [Articles sur les araignées]. In: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle Édition. Deterville, Paris, Tome 7-11, 13, 17-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Aharon, S., Ganem, Z. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2022b). A new semi-cryptic Filistata from caves in the Levant with comments on the limits of Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775) (Arachnida: Araneae: Filistatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 831: 149-174. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.831.1875 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Ramírez, M. J. (2022). Phylogeny and biogeography of the ancient spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) is consistent both with long-distance dispersal and vicariance following continental drift. Cladistics 38(5): 538-562. doi:10.1111/cla.12505 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Zonstein, S. L. (2014). A synopsis of Middle East Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae), with description of new species from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 199-205. doi:10.15298/arthsel.23.2.09 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015a). The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516: 123-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.10146 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Naumova, M. & Deltshev, C. (2021). New faunistic and taxonomic notes on the haplogyne and cribellate spiders (Araneae: Dictynidae, Dysderidae, Eresidae, Filistatidae, Sicariidae) from three Balkan countries. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67(1): 63-76. doi:10.17109/AZH.67.1.63.2021 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876b). Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44(3): 541-630, pl. 58-60. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1914b). Zweite Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80(A3): 173-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 375-645. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.69282 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Grabolle, A. (2018). A remarkably small new species of Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae) from Portugal. Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 49-52. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.06 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019b). A revision of the spider genus Filistata (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 18(2): 53-93. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.53 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-09-19 New taxonomic reference entry Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2022 n/a
2022-07-25 New taxonomic reference entry Magalhaes et al., 2022b n/a
2022-07-25 Species distribution update Magalhaes et al., 2022b n/a (Old value)
2021-02-22 New taxonomic reference entry Naumova & Deltshev, 2021 n/a
2019-08-16 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sahastata bosmansi Zonstein & Marusik, 2019
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b n/a
2019-08-16 Species synonymy Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b Filistata delimbata synonymized with Filistata insidiatrix
2019-08-16 Species synonymy Zonstein & Marusik, 2019b Filistata puta synonymized with Filistata insidiatrix
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Benoit, 1968b n/a
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Simon, 1893a n/a
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Ausserer, 1867 n/a
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Thorell, 1873 n/a
2019-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Simon, 1895a n/a
2018-09-01 New taxonomic reference entry Gerhardt, 1928 n/a
2018-03-29 New taxonomic reference entry Zonstein, Marusik & Grabolle, 2018 n/a
2017-11-17 New taxonomic reference entry Gerhardt, 1944 n/a
2017-07-01 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2009b n/a
2017-06-23 Taxonomic reference update n/a (Old value)
2015-08-31 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Zamani, 2015a n/a
2014-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Zonstein, 2014 n/a