Scotospilus is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1886.[3]
| Scotospilus | |
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| Scotospilus spp. in Queensland, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains nine species:[1][4]
- 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
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Scotospilus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Simon, E. (1886). "Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de la famille des Agelenidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 30: 56–61.
- ^ Forster, R. R. (1970). The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184
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