# Scotophaeus

Scotophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.

## Species

As of May 2019 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 – Bulgaria, 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