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Spitting Spiders
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Spitting Spiders

Scytodidae

Spitting spiders are members of the spider family Scytodidae. There are several genera, of which Scytodes is the best-known. Over 150 species of scytodids have been described worldwide.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first

Scytodinae

subfamilyScytodinae

Scyloxinae

subfamilyScyloxinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47431.