Scytodes
| Scytodes | |
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| S. thoracica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Scytodidae |
| Genus: | Scytodes Latreille, 1804 |
| Species | |
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Scytodes fusca | |
| Diversity | |
| 173 species | |
Scytodes is a genus of spitting spider that occurs all around the world. The best known species is Scytodes thoracica which has a holarctic distribution. The spitting from which its name derives is used as a method of predation. [1]
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