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Common Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

10,189 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 510, February 377, March 590, April 929, May 1,339, June 1,460, July 1,563, August 1,344, September 987, October 736, November 402, December 315.
United States11,949
Alaska10,553
Germany941
France895
Austria552
Italy497
United Kingdom333
England326
New York259
Steiermark250

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilySpitting Spiders · Scytodidae
GenusScytodes

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