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Scytodidae  Blackwall, 1864 / Scytodes  Latreille, 1804   13 species

Scytodes fusca  Walckenaer, 1837

Description
Male

Bulbus: embolus part long and narrow. Lighter coloured than females. Prosoma and legs light yellow with dark violet markings. Opisthosoma with dark transverse stripes.

Body length male: 4.0-5.5 mm
Female

Prosoma more or less dark chestnut brown. Opisthosoma with dark transverse stripes.

Body length female: 4.4-6.0 mm
Additional information

This species of American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Northern to Southern America. Introduced to Europe, Africa, Seychelles, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, China, Japan, Hawaii
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Germany   (Šestáková et al., 2014; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Portugal   (Cardoso & Morano, 2010) ||| Slovakia   (Šestáková et al., 2014) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578 pdf

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 pdf

Ono H (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470 pdf

Saaristo M I (1997c) Scytotids (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5 : 49-57 pdf

Šestáková A, Černecká L, 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 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
06-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
25-11-2018 Distribution update Detail
05-08-2014 Image insert
03-06-2014 Distribution update Detail
07-05-2013 Image insert