Biology:Scotospilus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Scotospilus
Scotospilus spp.jpg
Scotospilus spp. in Queensland, Australia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Scotospilus
Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
S. bicolor
Simon, 1886
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Tuana Forster, 1970[2]

Scotospilus is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1886.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains nine species:[1]

  • Scotospilus ampullarius (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Scotospilus bicolor Simon, 1886 (type) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Scotospilus divisus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
  • Scotospilus longus Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013 – Vietnam
  • Scotospilus maindroni (Simon, 1906) – India
  • Scotospilus nelsonensis (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
  • Scotospilus plenus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
  • Scotospilus wellingtoni (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Scotospilus westlandicus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Scotospilus Simon, 1886. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1043. Retrieved 2019-06-07. 
  2. Brignoli, P. M. (1986). "Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 11: 331. 
  3. Simon, E. (1886). "Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de la famille des Agelenidae.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30: 56–61. 

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