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Genus: Scytodes Latreille, 1804 | Family: Scytodidae Blackwall, 1852

Scytodes cubensis Alayón, 1977

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002805

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Described:

Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Rep., Puerto Rico

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Holotype: Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Colección Zoológica de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (IES-CZACC/IZ), La Habana, Cuba f - (Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025)
Paratype: Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Colección Zoológica de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (IES-CZACC/IZ), La Habana, Cuba 10f - (Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025)
Paratype: Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Colección Zoológica de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (IES-CZACC/IZ), La Habana, Cuba 1m (misidentified per Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025: 501) - (Alayón, 1977b)

Taxonomic References

Scytodes cubensis Alayón, 1977b: 2, f. 1A-B (Df; m f. 1C misidentified per Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025: 501) Original description

Scytodes cubensis Brescovit & Rheims, 2001: 327, f. 67-68 (m; misidentified per Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025: 501)

Scytodes cubensis Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025: 501, f. 14-30, 61-70 (Dm, f)

References

Alayón García, G. (1977b). Nuevas especies de Scytodes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Scytodidae) de Cuba. Poeyana 177: 1-20. -- Show included taxa

Brescovit, A. D. & Rheims, C. A. (2001). Notes on the genus Scytodes (Araneae, Scytodidae) in Central and South America. Journal of Arachnology 29(3): 312-329. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0312:NOTGSA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Iost, F. M., Alayón García, G. & Rheims, C. A. (2025). On the Antillean spiders of the genus Scytodes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Scytodidae). Zootaxa 5728(3): 496-530. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.3 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025
2026-01-01	Species distribution update	Iost, Alayón & Rheims, 2025	Old value