Scotophaeus Explained

Scotophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.^[1]

Species

it contains sixty-two species and two subspecies:^[2]

• S. aculeatus Simon, 1914 – France
• S. affinis Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• S. afghanicus Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
• S. arboricola Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
• S. bersebaensis Strand, 1915 – Namibia
• S. bharatae Gajbe, 1989 – India
• S. bifidus Schmidt & Krause, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
• S. blackwalli (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Caucasus. Introduced to North America, Peru, Hawaii
  • Scotophaeus b. isabellinus (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica), Italy, Croatia, USA & Canada (Cosmopolitan)^[3]
  • Scotophaeus b. politus (Simon, 1878) – France
• S. brolemanni Simon, 1914 – France
• S. cecileae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• S. correntinus Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina
• S. crinitus Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
• S. dispulsus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Tajikistan, Mongolia
• S. dolanskyi Lissner, 2017 – Portugal
• S. domesticus Tikader, 1962 – India
• S. fabrisae Caporiacco, 1950 – Italy
• S. faisalabadiensis Ghafoor & Beg, 2002 – Pakistan
• S. gridellii Caporiacco, 1928 – Canary Is.
• S. hierro Schmidt, 1977 – Canary Is.
• S. hunan Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China, Japan
• S. insularis Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is., Greece
• S. invisus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – China (Yarkand)
• S. jacksoni Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is.
• S. jinlin Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004 – China
• S. kalimpongensis Gajbe, 1992 – India
• S. lamperti Strand, 1906 – Central Africa
• S. lindbergi Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
• S. madalasae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977 – India
• S. marleyi Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• S. mauckneri Schmidt, 1956 – Canary Is.
• S. merkaricola Strand, 1907 – India
• S. meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
• S. microdon Caporiacco, 1933 – Libya
• S. musculus (Simon, 1878) – Salvages, Madeira, France
• S. nanoides Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal
• S. nanus Wunderlich, 1995 – Austria
• S. natalensis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
• S. nigrosegmentatus (Simon, 1895) – Mongolia, Karakorum
• S. nossibeensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
• S. nyrensis Simon, 1909 – East Africa
• S. parvioculis Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
• S. peninsularis Roewer, 1928 – Bulgaria,^[4] Greece (incl. Crete), Israel
• S. poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
• S. pretiosus (L. Koch, 1873) – New Zealand
• S. purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• S. quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• S. rajasthanus Tikader, 1966 – India
• S. rebellatus (Simon, 1880) – China
• S. regularis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
• S. relegatus Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
• S. retusus (Simon, 1878) – France
• S. rufescens (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
• S. schenkeli Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• S. scutulatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia
• S. semitectus (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
• S. simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India, China
• S. strandi Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
• S. tubicola Schmidt, 1990 – Canary Is.
• S. typhlus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
• S. validus (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Morocco, Algeria
• S. westringi Simon, 1914 – France
• S. xizang Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1893. Histoire naturelle das araignées. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
2. Gen. Scotophaeus Simon, 1893. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Web site: Genus Scotophaeus. BugGuide. 2019-06-04.
4. Naumova . Maria . Blagoev . Gergin . Deltshev . Christo . June 2021 . Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae) . Zootaxa . 4984. 1 . 228–257 . 6 June 2024.