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 American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe 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)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Habitus, lateral view
(Ono 2011)
Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)
Copulatory pockets, ventral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1976b)
Spermatheca
(Brignoli 1976b)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Sherwood 2025)
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
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 
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 (2014a) First record of the exotic spitting spider Scytodes fusca (Araneae, Scytodidae) in Central Europe from Germany and Slovakia. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 1-6
Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160
Szymkowiak P, Konecka E, Rutkowski T, Pecyna A, Szwajkowski P (2025) Alien spiders in a palm house with the first report of parthenogenetic Triaeris stenaspis (Araneae: Oonopidae) infected by Wolbachia from new supergroup X. Scientific Reports 15(9512): 1-13
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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