Scotospilus

Scotospilus is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1886.^[3]

Scotospilus
S. ampullarius in Queensland, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hahniidae
Genus:	Scotospilus Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
S. bicolor Simon, 1886
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Tuana Forster, 1970[2]

Species

As of October 2025^[update], this genus includes nine species:^[1]

• Scotospilus ampullarius (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Scotospilus bicolor Simon, 1886 – Australia (Tasmania) (type species)
• Scotospilus divisus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Scotospilus longus Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013 – Vietnam
• Scotospilus maindroni (Simon, 1906) – India
• Scotospilus nelsonensis (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Scotospilus plenus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Scotospilus wellingtoni (Hickman, 1948) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Scotospilus westlandicus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand