Scytodes fusca

♂ Scytodes fusca

♀ Scytodes fusca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scytodoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Haplogynae Superfamilia: Scytodoidea

Familia: Scytodidae
Genus: Scytodes
Species: Scytodes fusca

Name

Scytodes fusca Walckenaer, 1837

Type locality: Cayenne, French Guiana

Syntypes ♂♀: Lost in MNHN

Synonyms

• Scytodes hebraica Simon, 1891
• Scytodes bajula Simon, 1891
• Scytodes campinensis Mello-Leitão, 1918
• Scytodes discolor Mello-Leitão, 1918
• Scytodes iguassuensis Mello-Leitão, 1918
• Scytodes nannipes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936
• Scytodes torquatus Kraus, 1955 (synonymized with Valerio, 1981: 83)
  • Type locality: Dept. La Union. Cutuco, San Salvador
    • Holotype: SMF. male ♂. 19.IV.1951

References

• Walckenaer, C. A. 1837. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1–682. [272]
• Simon, E. 1891. On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891: 549–575. [568, pl. 42, f. 14; 569, pl. 42, f. 15]
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. de. 1918. Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83–144. [133, f. 37]
• Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1936. New spiders from Mexico and Panama. Bulletin of the University of Utah 27(5): 1–103. [8, pl. 1, f. 3]
• Kraus, O. 1955. Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1–112. [12, f. 17]
• Sampathkumar, M., Reang, B., Caleb, T.D.J., Mahendiran, G. & Shaw, S.S. 2022. The spitting spider, Scytodes fusca Walckenaer (Araneae, Scytodidae): Its distribution in South India and natural history notes. Journal of Entomological Research 46(2): 347-350. DOI: 10.5958/0974-4576.2022.00063.9. . Reference page. 
• Valerio, C. E. 1981. Spitting spiders (Araneae, Scytodidae, Scytodes) from Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 80–89. PDF [83, f. 1, 10, 19-20]
• Brescovit, A. D. & C. A. Rheims. 2000. On the synanthropic species of the genus Scytodes Latreille (Araneae, Scytodidae) of Brazil, with synonymies and records of these species in other Neotropical countries. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 320–330. [323, f. 5-8]

Vernacular names

日本語: クロヤマシログモ
中文: 暗花皮蛛

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