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 mmFemale
Prosoma more or less dark chestnut brown. Opisthosoma with dark transverse stripes.
Body length female: 4.4-6.0 mmAdditional information
This species of Central American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1976b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ono 2011)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ono 2011)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Habitus, lateral view
(Ono 2011)
Copulatory pockets, ventral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1976b)
Spermatheca
(Brignoli 1976b)
Habitus, lateral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)
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.
References
Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 
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
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
Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52
Ono H (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470
Saaristo M I (1997c) Scytotids (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5 : 49-57
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
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2