Sedasta

Sedasta is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Sedasta ferox. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1894,^[1][2] and has only been found in West Africa.^[1] It was originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, and though was moved to the orb-weavers in 1985,^[3] it is still sometimes considered to be a theridiid^[4] or a long-jawed orb weaver.^[1]

Sedasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Sedasta Simon, 1894[1]
Species:	S. ferox
Binomial name
Sedasta ferox Simon, 1894