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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon = Sedasta ferox
| authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1894
| parent_authority = Simon, 1894<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Sedasta''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Africa]]n [[Araneidae|orb-weaver spiders]] containing the single species, '''''Sedasta ferox'''''. It was first described by [[Eugène Simon]] in 1894,<ref name=NMBE /><ref name=Simo1892>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1892| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées|contribution=Sedasta |contribution-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38670833 |edition=2 |volume=1|page=531}} [Volume dated 1892, this part published 1894.]</ref> and has only been found in [[West Africa]].<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sedasta Simon, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/400| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> It was originally placed with the [[Theridiidae|tangle-web spiders]], and though was moved to the orb-weavers in 1985,<ref name=Ledo1985>{{cite journal| last=Ledoux| first=J.-C.| year=1985| title=La position systématique de Sedasta ferox Simon (Araneae, Argiopidae)| journal=Revue Arachnologique| volume=6| page=72}}</ref> it is still sometimes considered to be a theridiid<ref name=Brig1986>{{cite journal| last=Brignoli| first=P. M.| year=1986| title=The rediscovery of Sedasta ferox Simon, 1984 [sic] (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Quaderno, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei| volume=260| page=133}}</ref> or a [[long-jawed orb weaver]].<ref name=NMBE />
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[[Category:Araneidae]]
[[Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Spiders of Africa]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon]]
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