Taxon details
Scytodes fusca Walckenaer, 1837
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2023-11-24
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002816]
- Distribution: Northern to Southern America. Introduced to Europe, Africa, Seychelles, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, China, Japan, Hawaii
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); m (8682-100) of Scytodes torquatus
- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00787, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Scytodes iguassuensis
- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00796, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Scytodes campinensis
- Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 1m 1f 1j (8565, 8708, 8709) of Scytodes torquatus
- Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); 3f (00791, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Scytodes discolor
- Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1jm 2jf of Scytodes vittata (Dupérré, 2023a)
Scytodes domestica Doleschall, 1859: 48, pl. 6, f. 1 (Df).
Scytodes guianensis Taczanowski, 1872: 108 (Df).
Scytodes vittata Keyserling, 1877c: 212, pl. 7, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002908].
Dictis fumida Thorell, 1891: 33 (Df).
Scytodes hebraica Simon, 1892e: 568, pl. 42, f. 14 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055142].
Scytodes bajula Simon, 1892e: 569, pl. 42, f. 15 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055136].
Scytodes fusca Simon, 1892e: 571.
Dictis domestica Thorell, 1895b: 67 (Dm).
Scytodes hebraica F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899a: 51, pl. 4, f. 3-5 (f, Dm).
Scytodes domestica Kulczyński, 1911b: 457, pl. 21, f. 3-4, 10, 12 (mf).
Scytodes atrofusca Strand, 1916b: 95 (f, provisional name).
Scytodes vittata Mello-Leitão, 1917a: 79, f. 3 (Dm).
Scytodes campinensis Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 133, f. 37 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055137].
Scytodes discolor Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 133 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055141].
Scytodes iguassuensis Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 133 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055143].
Scytodes fusca Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 113, f. 97-98 (mf).
Scytodes nannipes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936a: 8, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055146].
Scytodes fusca Lessert, 1939: 7.
Scytodes velutina Millot, 1941: 41, f. 16A-C (f, misidentified).
Scytodes fusca Mello-Leitão, 1941c: 236 (S of Scytodes campinensis and S. discolor).
Scytodes fusca Kaston, 1945b: 7, f. 24 (f).
Scytodes fusca Millot, 1946b: 157, f. 2A-C, 3B, 4A-B (mf).
Scytodes torquatus Kraus, 1955b: 12, f. 17 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055151].
Scytodes fusca Chrysanthus, 1967b: 91, f. 6-10 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Brignoli, 1976a: 175, f. 106-108, 110 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Valerio, 1981: 83, f. 1, 10, 19-20 (mf, S of Scytodes bajula, S. hebraica, S. nannipes, S. torquata).
Scytodes torquata Brignoli, 1983c: 150.
Scytodes fusca Wang, Zhang & Li, 1985: 66, f. I (mf).
Scytodes fusca Lehtinen, 1986: 152, f. 2-3, 6-7 (m).
Scytodes fusca Heimer, 1990: 11, f. 28 (f).
Scytodes fusca Wang, 1994c: 6, f. 1-3 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Saaristo, 1997c: 52, f. 8-12 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 49, f. 19R, 20D (mf).
Scytodes fusca Brescovit & Rheims, 2000: 323, f. 5-8 (mf, S of Scytodes iguassuensis).
Scytodes fusca Paquin, Dupérré & Labelle, 2008: 219, f. 1A-E (mf).
Scytodes fusca Ono, 2009a: 124, f. 8-9 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010: 136, f. 31-33, 42-43, 56 (f).
Scytodes fusca Saaristo, 2010: 203, f. 28.8-13 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Ono, 2011b: 444, f. 24-30, 95 (m).
Scytodes fusca Šestáková et al., 2014: 1, f. 1, 2a-c, 3a-d, 4a-b, 5 (mf).
Scytodes fusca Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021u: 16, 4 f. (m, f habitus).
Scytodes fusca Sampathkumar et al., 2022: 348, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-B (mf).
Scytodes fusca Dupérré, 2023a: 201, f. 55A-B, 56A-C (S of Scytodes vittata).
Scytodes fusca Fomichev & Omelko, 2023c: 979, f. 20-26 (f).
Brescovit, A. D. & Rheims, C. A. (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(8): 320-330. -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1976a). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Scytodidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83(1): 125-191. -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa
Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1936a). New spiders from Mexico and Panama. Bulletin of the University of Utah 27(5): 1-103. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1967b). Spiders from south New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 110: 89-105. -- Show included taxa
Dankittipakul, P. & Singtripop, T. (2010). The spitting spider family Scytodidae in Thailand, with descriptions of three new Dictis species (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117: 121-141. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Booysen, R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021u). The Scytodidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 41 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7157802 -- Show included taxa
Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. -- Show included taxa
Dupérré, N. (2023a). New light on some historical type specimens -in relation to the South American spider (Araneae) fauna-. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 50(1): 118-277. doi:10.1080/03014223.2022.2123835 -- Show included taxa
Fomichev, A. A. & Omelko, M. M. (2023c). New data on the spitting spiders (Araneae: Scytodidae) of Southeast Asia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 9: 975-986. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10156248 -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. (1990). Untersuchungen zur Evolution der Kopulationsorgane bei Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 53: 1-25, 97-123. -- Show included taxa
Kaston, B. J. (1945b). New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. American Museum Novitates 1292: 1-14. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1877c). Amerikanische Spinnenarten aus den Familien der Pholcoidae, Scytodoidae und Dysderoidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 205-234. -- Show included taxa
Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1911b). Symbola ad faunam Aranearum Javae et Sumatrae cognoscendam. II. Sicariidae, Dysderidae, Drassodidae, Zodariidae. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 451-496. -- Show included taxa
Lehtinen, P. T. (1986). Evolution of the Scytodoidea. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983, 149-157. -- Show included taxa
Lessert, R. de (1939). Araignées du Congo belge (Deuxieme partie). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 32: 1-13. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918c). Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83-144. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941c). Aranhas do Paraná. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico, Sao Paolo 11: 235-257. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917a). Notas arachnologicas. 5, Especies novas ou pouco conhecidas do Brasil. Brotéria (Ser. Zool.) 15: 74-102. -- Show included taxa
Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française - sicariides et pholcides. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (2) 64(3, 1940): 1-53. -- Show included taxa
Millot, J. (1946b). Les Scytodes d'Afrique Noire française (Araneae). Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 156-168. -- Show included taxa
Ono, H. (2009a). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp. -- Show included taxa
Ono, H. (2011b). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470. -- Show included taxa
Paquin, P., Dupérré, N. & Labelle, S. (2008). Introduced spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in an artificial ecosystem in eastern Canada. Entomological News 119: 217-226. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1899a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 41-88, pl. 2-6. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (1997c). Scytotids [sic] (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5: 49-57. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Sampathkumar, M., Reang, B., Caleb, J. T. D., 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 -- Show included taxa
Šestáková, A., Černecká, Ľ., Neumann, J. & Reiser, N. (2014). First record of the exotic spitting spider Scytodes fusca (Araneae, Scytodidae) in Central Europe from Germany and Slovakia. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 1-6. doi:10.5431/aramit4701 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1892e). On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 59(4, 1891): 549-575, pl. 42. [published in April 1892, after Duncan, 1937] -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa
Taczanowski, L. (1872). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 64-112, pl. 3-4. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1873] -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- Show included taxa
Valerio, C. E. (1981). Spitting spiders (Araneae, Scytodidae, Scytodes) from Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 80-89. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
Wang, J. F., Zhang, Y. J. & Li, F. J. (1985). New report of some spiders from southern China. Journal of Hunan Normal University 1985(2): 66-69. -- Show included taxa
Wang, J. F. (1994c). On five Scytodidae of the genus Scytodes from China. Journal of Hebei Normal University (nat. Sci. Ed.) 1994(Suppl.): 6-11. -- Show included taxa
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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2023-11-24 | New taxonomic reference entry | Fomichev & Omelko, 2023c | n/a |
2023-11-24 | Species distribution update | Fomichev & Omelko, 2023c | n/a (Old value) |
2023-03-15 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dupérré, 2023a | n/a |
2023-03-15 | Species synonymy | Dupérré, 2023a | Scytodes vittata synonymized with Scytodes fusca |
2022-10-18 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021u | n/a |
2022-06-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sampathkumar et al., 2022 | n/a |
2022-06-07 | Species distribution update | Sampathkumar et al., 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
2014-07-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Šestáková et al., 2014 | n/a |
2014-07-10 | Species distribution update | Šestáková et al., 2014 | n/a (Old value) |