Scotospilus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image= Scotospilus spp.jpg

|image_caption= Scotospilus spp. in Queensland, Australia

|taxon=Scotospilus

|authority=Simon, 1886

|type_species=S. bicolor

|type_species_authority=Simon, 1886

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=9, see text

|synonyms=

  • Tuana Forster, 1970{{cite journal|last=Brignoli|first=P. M.|year=1986|title=Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands|journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona|volume=11|page=331}}

|synonyms_ref=

}}

Scotospilus is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1886.{{cite journal |last=Simon |first=E. |year=1886 |title=Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de la famille des Agelenidae. |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/809 |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique |volume=30 |pages=56–61}}

Species

{{as of|2019|05}} it contains nine species:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Scotospilus Simon, 1886|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1043|doi=10.24436/2}}Forster, R. R. (1970). [https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/4129 The spiders of New Zealand. Part III]. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184

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