Spitting spider
| Spitting spiders Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Scytodes thoracica | |
| Scytodes male, showing pedipalps | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Scytodidae Blackwall, 1864 |
| Diversity | |
| 4 genera, 252 species | |
Spitting spiders are a family of araneomorph spiders, the family Scytodidae, first described by John Blackwall in 1864. It contains over 250 species in five genera, of which Scytodes is the best-known.