Taxon details


Scytodes fusca Walckenaer, 1837

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002816]
  • Distribution: North to South America. Introduced to St. Helena, Europe, Africa, Seychelles, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, China, Japan, Hawaii
Type deposit provide information
  • 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)
Taxonomic references
Scytodes fusca Walckenaer, 1837: 272 (Dmf).
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).
References

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1976a). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Scytodidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83(1): 125-191. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1967b). Spiders from south New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 110: 89-105. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1945b). New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. American Museum Novitates 1292: 1-14. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1986). Evolution of the Scytodoidea. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983, 149-157. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1939). Araignées du Congo belge (Deuxieme partie). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 32: 1-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918c). Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941c). Aranhas do Paraná. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico, Sao Paolo 11: 235-257. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1946b). Les Scytodes d'Afrique Noire française (Araneae). Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 156-168. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (1997c). Scytotids [sic] (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5: 49-57. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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] download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
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)