Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Filistatidae

Genus Filistata Latreille, 1810

Type species.

Filistata testacea Latreille, 1810 (considered a junior synonym of Filistata insidiatrix).

Filistata is a genus of medium to large-sized Filistatinae spiders with 19 valid species mainly distributed from Mediterranean to Turkmenistan. Members of this genus can be diagnosed by the long and cylindrical palpal tibia of males, well-developed thoracic fovea, long and subhorizontal clypeus, oval sternum and longer than wide labium (Zonstein et al. 2013).