Spitting spider

Spitting spiders
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
Scytodes thoracica
Scytodes male, showing pedipalps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Scytodidae
Blackwall, 1864
Diversity[1]
4 genera, 252 species

Spitting spiders (Scytodidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1864.[2] It contains over 250 species in five genera,[1] of which Scytodes is the best-known.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Blackwall, J. (1864). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Ray Society, London. pp. 175–384.