Scotophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.
Species
it contains sixty-two species and two subspecies: 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) 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 – 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