Genus Filistata Latreille, 1810

Filistata Latreille, 1810: 121 .

Type species by monotypy Filistata testacea Latreille, 1810 (= Aranea insidiatrix Forsskål, 1775).

Teratodes C.L. Koch 1839: 6 .

Type species by monotypy Teratodes attalicus C.L. Koch, 1839 (= Aranea insidiatrix Forsskål,1775). First synonymized with Filistata by Simon (1864: 95)

Filistata – Lehtinen 1967: 234 (first large-scale re-delimitation of the genus). — Zonstein & Marusik 2019: 57 (first monographic treatment of the taxonomy of the group).