Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Scotophaeus  Simon, 1893   21 species

Scotophaeus insularis  Berland, 1936

Description
Male

Prosoma and legs pale yellow. Prosoma length: 3 mm. Chelicerae pale yellow, retromargin with a very small tooth. Opisthosoma grey, with a yellow-reddish scutum, covering 1/4 of opisthosomal length.

Body length male: 7.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 3 mm.

Body length female: 10.5 mm
Additional information

Under a stone on an eroded beach area (Chios, Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cape Verde, Greece
Phenology
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"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.

Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) |||
References

Berland L (1936) Mission de M. A. Chevalier aux iles du Cap Vert (1934). 1. Araignées. Revue Française d'Entomologie 3: 67-88 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

Schmidt G, Geisthardt M, Piepho F (1994) Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna der Kapverdischen Inseln (Arachnida: Araneida). Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins 19: 81-126 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
07-10-2024 Distribution update Detail
04-09-2015 Image insert