Scytodes velutina Heineken & Lowe, 1832
Description
Male
Bulbus with a short embolus. Prosoma 1.9 mm long.
Body length male: 3.5 mmFemale
Prosoma 2.7 mm long. Prosoma pale yellowish, with black pattern. Opisthosoma pale yellowish, anteriorly with 2 wide transverse procurved black streaks, and posteriorly with 2 longitudinal dark streaks.
Body length female: 5.7 mmAdditional information
Under stones.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1987)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Bulbus and embolus
(Wunderlich 1987)
Bulbus and embolus
(Wunderlich 1987)
Bulbus
(Brignoli 1976a)
Tip of bulbus
(Brignoli 1976a)
Epigyne
(Wunderlich 1987)
Epigyne
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Copulatory pockets, ventral view
(Saaristo 1997c)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1976a)
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
Abdel-Ghani D M A, Hassan F M, Sallam G M E (2023) Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20: 26-38 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Brignoli P M (1976a) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Scytodidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 125-191
Denis J (1961c) Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. IX. Les araignées du Maroc I. Orthognatha et Haplogynae. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 41: 141-167
El-Hennawy H K (2006) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2006). Serket 10: 65-76
Kunt K B, Kaya R S, Özkütük R S, Danişman T, Yağmur E A, Elverici M (2012) Additional notes on the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 36: 637-651
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
Saaristo M I (1997c) Scytotids (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5 : 49-57
Van Keer J, Bosmans R (2014) A new species of Scytodes from Algeria (Araneae: Scytodidae), with a review of the species from the Maghreb. Zootaxa 3894: 131-140
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
Wunderlich J (1987) Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp.