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Genus Scotinella

Representative Images

Scotinella sculleni? - Scotinella sculleni - male Scotinella minnetonka - female Scotinella sculleni ? - Scotinella - male Scotinella fratrella? - Scotinella - female Scotinella/Phruronellus maybe? - Scotinella - female Scotinella pugnata--voucher image - Scotinella pugnata - female Small Ant Mimic in the Compost - Scotinella Scotinella redempta - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Phrurolithidae (Guardstone Spiders)
Genus Scotinella

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Author of the name: Banks. Year first published: 1911.

Numbers

There are 16 species in the U.S.

Identification

Epigyna


Palps

Range

S. britcheri - NC to southern ON (1)
S. brittoni - Southern ON to NS, southward to MO and MD (1)
S. custeri - Only known from SD-Custer State Park (2)
S. deleta - Only known from NY (female unknown) (1)
S. divesta - Northern NY to NS, southward to MA (1)
S. divinula - Southern ON south to NC (1)
S. dixiana - Only known from LA (Roddy, 1957)
S. fratrella - TX to southern ON (1)
S. madisonia - WI and southern ON (1)
S. manitou - Only known from WI (Levi, 1951)
S. minnetonka - MN to southern ON, southward to MS. (1)
S. pallida - Only known from NC-Black Mountains (Banks, 1911)
S. pelvicolens - Only known from WY-Grand Tetons National Park (2)
S. pugnata - BC east to NS south to UT and DE (1)
S. redempta - KS, AL, and NC northward to southern ON. (1)
S. sculleni - Coastal BC, WA, and OR (1)

Works Cited

1.The Sac Spiders of Canada and Alaska: Araneae, Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae (The Insects and Arachnids of Canada)
Charles D. Dondale and James H. Redner. 1982.
2.Report on a Collection of Spiders and Harvestmen from Wyoming and Neighboring States
Levi, Herbert W. and Lorna R. Levi. 1951. ZOOLOGICA, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 14 September, 2009 - 9:25am
Additional contributions by cheins
Last updated 27 June, 2022 - 3:00pm

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