On Sahastata (Araneae: Filistatidae): complementary description of the generotype and two new species from Oman and Morocco.

The Filistatinae genus Sahastata Benoit, 1968 is distributed in arid and semi-arid areas, from westernmost Sahara to India, and includes seven known species. Four of these are only known from one sex, including Sahastata nigra (Simon, 1897), the type species. Here we present the first description of a male of this species collected near the type locality in Muscat, Oman.

A review of the Spider Genus of Sumatra, Indonesia, with First Analysis of Male Characters and Description of Three New Species (Araneae, Nemesiidae).

The first Sumatran representatives of Simon, 1887, the genus formerly known only from two species from Myanmar and one species from India, are currently revealed and reviewed. Three new species (listed below) are described and the current concept of is redefined following study of the male characters previously almost completely unknown. Most of these characters are studied, illustrated and discussed for the first time.

Redescription of Phrurolithus flavipes (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with the first description of the male.

Phrurolithus C.L. Koch, 1839, with 71 named species, is the largest genus of the family Phrurolithidae, which contains 188 species belonging to 14 genera (Platnick 2014).

Redescription of three species of Filistatidae (Araneae) described by C.F. Roewer from Afghanistan.

Types of three filistatid species described by Roewer (1960, 1962) from Afghanistan are redescribed and two of them transferred to other filistatid genera. The new combinations proposed are: Zaitunia afghana (Roewer 1962) comb. n.