''Scotina'' is a genus of sac spiders of the family

Liocranidae Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...

which was named by the German

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Franz Anton Menge in 1873 with '' Scotina gracilipes'' as the

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. ''Scotina'' was thought to be a mainly

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genus but one species, ''Scotina palliardi'' was found in Korea in 2011. The species in the genus ''Scotina'' are small spiders which have six to ten pairs of ventral spines which can be seen using a lens. They have a darker and shinier

cephalothorax The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...

than in other genera within the Liocranidae. They also have light brown femora with the more distal segments of the legs are darker, especially on the first pairs. They are

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spiders which are mainly found among moss and litter on the ground.

Species

Four species are currently listed as valid in the World Spider Catalog. *'' Scotina celans'' (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Algeria, Russia *'' Scotina gracilipes'' (Blackwall, 1859) – Europe *'' Scotina occulta'' Kritscher, 1996 – Malta *'' Scotina palliardii'' ( L. Koch, 1881) – Europe, Russia, Korea

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2198133 Spiders of Asia Araneomorphae genera