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Species Scytodes thoracica

Fancy spitting spider - Scytodes thoracica

Scytodes thoracica? - Scytodes thoracica - female

Spitting Spider - Scytodes thoracica - female

spitting spider with egg sac - Scytodes thoracica - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Synspermiata)

Family Scytodidae (Spitting Spiders)

Genus Scytodes

Species thoracica (Scytodes thoracica)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Scytodes thoracica (Latreille, 1802)

Identification

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♂

Range

recorded in many parts of the U.S. and Europe and the range may be Holarctic. (see Internet References below)

Internet References

~ ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl - Images and information about this species.

~ Biodiversidadvirtual.org website, with many images of Scytodes thoracica (Latreille, 1802) from Spain

~ Wickipedia.org website page for Scytodes thoracica

~ BOLDSYSTEMS page for Scytodes thoracica - Specimens verified by DNA testing

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 12 April, 2004 - 6:22pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, cheins, Mike Quinn, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 February, 2019 - 4:52pm

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