Obatala armata

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Obatala armata

| authority = Lehtinen, 1967

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Obatala is a genus of African spiders in the family Macrobunidae containing the single species, Obatala armata. It was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967,{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| pages=199–468| volume=4}} and has only been found in South Africa.{{cite web| title=Gen. Obatala Lehtinen, 1967| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-05-08| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/102}}