Scoturius

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Scoturius tigris (10.1371-journal.pone.0190582) Figure 5 (cropped).tiff

| image_caption = Scoturius tigris

| taxon = Scoturius

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = S. tigris

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1901

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| S. dipterioides|Perger & Rubio, 2018 – Bolivia

| S. tigris|Simon, 1901 – Paraguay, Argentina}}

}}

Scoturius is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1901| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=141–161| volume=45| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only two species, found only in Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia: Scoturius dipterioides and Scoturius tigris.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Scoturius Simon, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2949| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}