Scotospilus

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

Scotospilus
Scientific classification
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]

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. "Gen. Scotospilus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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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