Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Scytodidae
- Genus: Scytodes
Author
Pierre Latreille, 1804
Sightings Overview
There have been 120 confirmed sightings of Scytodes, with the most recent sighting submitted on January 27, 2021 by Spider ID member mspix. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 120 sightings because of certain Scytodes sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 4% of the time, Scytodes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 105)
- Sex: 12 female and 4 male.
- Environment: Scytodes has been sighted 11 times outdoors, and 94 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (7). High foliage (1). Under rock or debris (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (1).
Location and Range
Scytodes has been sighted in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belize, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Scytodes has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C..
Seasonality
Scytodes has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 6
- February: 8
- March: 21
- April: 31
- May: 26
- June: 7
- July: 3
- August:
- September:
- October: 9
- November: 1
- December: 5