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Scytodidae  Blackwall, 1852 / Scytodes  Latreille, 1804   13 species

Scytodes longipes Lucas, 1844

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002843

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Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central and South America. Introduced to Guinea, DR Congo, Indonesia (New Guinea), Japan, Australia (Queensland), Pacific Is., Hawaii
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1976a)

species

male Pedipalp
(Valerio 1981)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Brescovit & Rheims 2000)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brescovit & Rheims 2000)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Baert et al. 2023)

species

female Epigyne
(Brescovit & Rheims 2000)

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female Epigyne
(Chrysanthus 1967)

species

female Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)

species

female Vulva
(Brignoli 1976a)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Valerio 1981)

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female Sternum
(Chrysanthus 1967)

species

Prosoma, dorsal view
(Valerio 1981)

species

Prosoma, dorsal view
(Valerio 1981)

species

Prosoma, dorsal view
(Valerio 1981)

Distribution List
France   (Brignoli, 1976a) |||
References

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

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: 320-330 pdf

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

Chrysanthus P (1967) Spiders from south New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 110: 89-105 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

Valerio C E (1981) Spitting spiders (Araneae, Scytodidae, Scytodes) from Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 80-89 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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