Scotophaeus
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Scotophaeus
|image=Scotophaeus_blackwalli.jpg
|image_caption=Scotophaeus blackwalli
|authority=Simon, 1893
|type_species=S. quadripunctatus
|type_species_authority=(Linnaeus, 1758)
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=62, see text
}}
Scotophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.{{cite book|last=Simon|first=E.|year=1893|title=Histoire naturelle das araignées|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}
Species
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains sixty-two species and two subspecies:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Scotophaeus Simon, 1893|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/983|doi=10.24436/2}}
- S. aculeatus Simon, 1914 – France
- S. affinis Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- S. afghanicus Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
- S. arboricola Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
- S. bersebaensis Strand, 1915 – Namibia
- S. bharatae Gajbe, 1989 – India
- S. bifidus Schmidt & Krause, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
- S. blackwalli (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Caucasus. Introduced to North America, Peru, Hawaii
- Scotophaeus b. isabellinus (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica), Italy, Croatia, USA & Canada (Cosmopolitan){{cite web|title=Genus Scotophaeus|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-04|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/248048}}
- Scotophaeus b. politus (Simon, 1878) – France
- S. brolemanni Simon, 1914 – France
- S. cecileae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- S. correntinus Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina
- S. crinitus Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
- S. dispulsus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Tajikistan, Mongolia
- S. dolanskyi Lissner, 2017 – Portugal
- S. domesticus Tikader, 1962 – India
- S. fabrisae Caporiacco, 1950 – Italy
- S. faisalabadiensis Ghafoor & Beg, 2002 – Pakistan
- S. gridellii Caporiacco, 1928 – Canary Is.
- S. hierro Schmidt, 1977 – Canary Is.
- S. hunan Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China, Japan
- S. insularis Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is., Greece
- S. invisus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – China (Yarkand)
- S. jacksoni Berland, 1936 – Cape Verde Is.
- S. jinlin Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004 – China
- S. kalimpongensis Gajbe, 1992 – India
- S. lamperti Strand, 1906 – Central Africa
- S. lindbergi Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan
- S. madalasae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977 – India
- S. marleyi Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- S. mauckneri Schmidt, 1956 – Canary Is.
- S. merkaricola Strand, 1907 – India
- S. meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
- S. microdon Caporiacco, 1933 – Libya
- S. musculus (Simon, 1878) – Salvages, Madeira, France
- S. nanoides Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal
- S. nanus Wunderlich, 1995 – Austria
- S. natalensis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
- S. nigrosegmentatus (Simon, 1895) – Mongolia, Karakorum
- S. nossibeensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
- S. nyrensis Simon, 1909 – East Africa
- S. parvioculis Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
- S. peninsularis Roewer, 1928 – Bulgaria,{{cite journal |last1=Naumova |first1=Maria |last2=Blagoev |first2=Gergin |last3=Deltshev |first3=Christo |date=June 2021 |title=Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352293906_Fifty_spider_species_new_to_the_Bulgarian_fauna_with_a_review_of_some_dubious_species_Arachnida_Araneae |format=|journal=Zootaxa |volume=4984|issue=1 |pages=228–257 |issn=|access-date=6 June 2024}} Greece (incl. Crete), Israel
- S. poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
- S. pretiosus (L. Koch, 1873) – New Zealand
- S. purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- S. quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
- S. rajasthanus Tikader, 1966 – India
- S. rebellatus (Simon, 1880) – China
- S. regularis Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
- S. relegatus Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
- S. retusus (Simon, 1878) – France
- S. rufescens (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
- S. schenkeli Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- S. scutulatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia
- S. semitectus (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
- S. simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India, China
- S. strandi Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
- S. tubicola Schmidt, 1990 – Canary Is.
- S. typhlus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
- S. validus (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Morocco, Algeria
- S. westringi Simon, 1914 – France
- S. xizang Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
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