House Spitting Spider Scytodes thoracica (Latreille, 1802)
Fauna Portal species: 4333
Scytodes thoracica male, dorsal (HBI N19712-1; Wembley, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9192Diagnosis
Scytodes thoracica differs from other species in the genus in Australia by the lyre-shaped marking on the carapace.
The identification as S. thoracica is tentative pending a revision of the genus including molecular data. There are many world-wide sequences online matching those of the Australian specimens, but if this represents the species originally described as S. thoracica remains unclear.
Status
- introduced
Linnean Type
No type specimens and type locality given in original description (Latreille 1802).
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Distribution
Cosmopolitan tramp species; synanthropic.
Fauna Portal Records
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