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Genus Scotinella

Scotinella sculleni? - Scotinella sculleni - male Scotinella - Scotinella sculleni - female Scotinella - Scotinella sculleni - female Scotinella minnetonka - female Scotinella fratrella? - Scotinella - female  Scotinella - Scotinella - male Scotinella? - Scotinella - female Scotinella minnetonka--voucher image - Scotinella minnetonka - 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
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.