World Spider Catalog

Scytodidae Blackwall, 1864

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: synonymy of Drymusidae and Periegopidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii & ix) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; Scyloxinae Zamani, Magalhaes & Rheims, 2022 new subfam. described in Zamani et al., 2022: 168.

In synonymy:

Soeuria Saaristo, 1997 = Dictis L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 158)

Gen. Dictis L. Koch, 1872 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00327

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Scytodes Latreille, 1804 by Saaristo, 1997c: 56; considered a senior synonym of Soeuria Saaristo, 1997c: 55 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00330] (type S. soeur Saaristo 1997) by Zamani et al., 2022: 158; an unidentified species from the Seychelles illustrated by Saaristo, 1997c: 56, f. 20-21; illustrations of other undescribed species from Thailand by Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010.

In synonymy:

Dictis bilqis (Rheims, Brescovit & van Harten, 2006, T from Scytodes) = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 164)

Dictis denticulata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 164)

Dictis depressa (Schenkel, 1953, T from Scytodes) = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Song & Hubert, 1983: 2, sub Scytodes)

Dictis ganeshi Keswani, 2015 = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 164)

Dictis lugubris (Thorell, 1887, T from Scytodes) = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 164)

Dictis mumbaiensis Ahmed, Satam, Khalap & Mohan, 2015 = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Zamani et al., 2022a: 164)

Dictis nigrolineata Simon, 1880 = Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Song & Hubert, 1983: 2, sub Scytodes)

Dictis edwardsi (Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013) | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048443

Scytodes edwardsi Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong in Barrion et al., 2013: 28, f. 31A-D (Df) Original description

Dictis edwardsi Lin et al., 2023a: 517, f. 11, 12A-B (f, T from Scytodes)

Dictis elongata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 | | Thailand, Laos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043257

Dictis elongata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010: 124, f. 5, 11, 13-16, 46, 51 (Dmf) Original description

Dictis elongata Fomichev & Omelko, 2023c: 978, f. 17-19 (m)

Dictis oranhutan Fomichev & Omelko, 2023 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059481

Dictis oranhutan Fomichev & Omelko, 2023c: 977, f. 1-16 (Dm) Original description

Dictis soeur (Saaristo, 1997) | | Seychelles urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002912

Soeuria soeur Saaristo, 1997c: 55, f. 18-19 (Df) Original description

Soeuria soeur Saaristo, 2010: 207, f. 28.20-23 (f, Dm)

Dictis soeur Zamani et al., 2022a: 161, f. 8A-G, 9A-C (mf, T from Soeuria)

Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 | | Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran, tropical Asia, Korea, Japan, China to Australia, Pacific Isles. Introduced to USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002778

Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872a: 294, pl. 24, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Dictis nigrolineata Simon, 1880b: 123 (Df)

Dictis lugubris Thorell, 1887: 86 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002846]

Scytodes nigrolineata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 114, pl. 6, f. 62, 71, pl. 12, f. 267, pl. 15, f. 441 (Dmf)

Scytodes lugubris Kulczyński, 1911b: 456, pl. 21, f. 6, 9 (f)

Scytodes striatipes Berland, 1924a: 185, f. 38 (Dm)

Scytodes striatipes Berland, 1935: 43, f. 1-2 (f)

Scytodes lugubris Lessert, 1939: 11, f. 19-22 (f, Dm)

Scythodes depressus Schenkel, 1953b: 14, f. 7a-b (Dm)

Scytodes nigrolineatus Schenkel, 1963: 28, f. 10 (m)

Scytodes striatipes Roewer, 1963a: 130, f. 10a-d (mf)

Scytodes nigrolineata Lee, 1966: 24, f. 4k-l (m)

Scytodes lugubris Brignoli, 1976a: 173, f. 105, 111, 114-115 (mf)

Scytodes nigrolineata Paik, 1978e: 219, f. 93.1-4 (mf)

Scytodes striatipes Song & Hubert, 1983: 2 (S of Scytodes depressa and S. nigrolineata)

Scytodes striatipes Yoshikura, 1987: 267, f. 35.2B (f)

Scytodes striatipes Xu, 1987a: 2, f. 3A-D (mf)

Dictis striatipes Saaristo, 1997c: 56 (T from Scytodes)

Scytodes striatipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 49, f. 20E-G (m)

Scytodes striatipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 68, f. 26 (m)

Scytodes striatipes Namkung, 2002: 33, f. 3.2a-b (mf)

Dictis striatipes Namkung, 2003: 33, f. 3.2a-b (mf)

Scytodes bilqis Rheims, Brescovit & van Harten, 2006: 161, f. 1-5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039521]

Scytodes lugubris Rheims, Brescovit & Durán-Barrón, 2007: 105, f. 20-22, 90-93 (mf)

Dictis striatipes Ono, 2009a: 124, f. 1-7 (mf)

Dictis denticulata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010: 126, f. 1, 3, 7, 9, 17-20, 47, 50, 52 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043258]

Dictis striatipes Yin et al., 2012: 150, f. 22a-e (mf)

Dictis ganeshi Keswani, 2015a: 1, f. 1-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047891]

Dictis mumbaiensis Ahmed et al., 2015b: 60, f. 1-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047895]

Dictis striatipes Kim & Lee, 2018c: 22, f. 9A-F (mf)

Scytodes lugubris Caleb, 2020b: 15743, f. 20A-D, 29M (f)

Dictis striatipes Suguro, 2020c: 1, f. 1-5 (mf)

Scytodes lugubris Gómez-Moreno, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2021: 131, f. 1-6 (f)

Dictis striatipes Unami, 2022: 13, f. 1-5 (m)

Dictis striatipes Zamani et al., 2022a: 164, f. 1E-F, 10A-C, 11A-K, 12A-D (mf, S of Dictis denticulata, D. ganeshi, D. mumbaiensis, Scytodes bilqis and S. lugubris)

Dictis striatipes Suzuki, 2022a: 184, f. 8-10 (m)

Dictis thailandica Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043259

Dictis thailandica Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010: 130, f. 28-30, 38-41, 48-49 (Dmf) Original description

"Dictis" thailandica Zamani et al., 2022a: 168 (incertae sedis)

Dictis uncata Wu, M. Y. Zhang, M. M. Zhang & Yang, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059467

Dictis uncata Wu et al., 2023b: 102, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-C (Dmf) Original description