Scotophaeus

Scotophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.[2]

Scotophaeus
Scotophaeus blackwalli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Scotophaeus
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
S. quadripunctatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

62, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains sixty-two species and two subspecies:[1]

  • S. aculeatus Simon, 1914 – France
  • S. affinis Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • S. afghanicus Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
  • S. arboricola Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
  • S. bersebaensis Strand, 1915 – Namibia
  • S. bharatae Gajbe, 1989 – India
  • S. bifidus Schmidt & Krause, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
  • S. blackwalli (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Caucasus. Introduced to North America, Peru, Hawaii
  • S. brolemanni Simon, 1914 – France
  • S. cecileae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • S. correntinus Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina
  • S. crinitus Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
  • S. dispulsus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Tajikistan, Mongolia
  • S. dolanskyi Lissner, 2017 – Portugal
  • S. domesticus Tikader, 1962 – India
  • S. fabrisae Caporiacco, 1950 – Italy
  • S. faisalabadiensis Ghafoor & Beg, 2002 – Pakistan
  • S. gridellii Caporiacco, 1928 – Canary Is.
  • S. hierro Schmidt, 1977 – Canary Is.
  • S. hunan Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China, Japan
  • S. insularis Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is., Greece
  • S. invisus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – China (Yarkand)
  • S. jacksoni Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is.
  • S. jinlin Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004 – China
  • S. kalimpongensis Gajbe, 1992 – India
  • S. lamperti Strand, 1906 – Central Africa
  • S. lindbergi Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
  • S. madalasae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977 – India
  • S. marleyi Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • S. mauckneri Schmidt, 1956 – Canary Is.
  • S. merkaricola Strand, 1907 – India
  • S. meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
  • S. microdon Caporiacco, 1933 – Libya
  • S. musculus (Simon, 1878) – Salvages, Madeira, France
  • S. nanoides Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal
  • S. nanus Wunderlich, 1995 – Austria
  • S. natalensis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
  • S. nigrosegmentatus (Simon, 1895) – Mongolia, Karakorum
  • S. nossibeensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
  • S. nyrensis Simon, 1909 – East Africa
  • S. parvioculis Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • S. peninsularis Roewer, 1928 – Greece (incl. Crete), Israel
  • S. poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
  • S. pretiosus (L. Koch, 1873) – New Zealand
  • S. purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • S. quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
  • S. rajasthanus Tikader, 1966 – India
  • S. rebellatus (Simon, 1880) – China
  • S. regularis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
  • S. relegatus Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
  • S. retusus (Simon, 1878) – France
  • S. rufescens (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
  • S. schenkeli Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • S. scutulatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia
  • S. semitectus (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
  • S. simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India, China
  • S. strandi Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
  • S. tubicola Schmidt, 1990 – Canary Is.
  • S. typhlus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
  • S. validus (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Morocco, Algeria
  • S. westringi Simon, 1914 – France
  • S. xizang Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
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References
  1. "Gen. Scotophaeus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  3. "Genus Scotophaeus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.


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