''Scorteccia'' is a
monotypic
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genus
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of
North Africa
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corinnid sac spiders containing the single species, ''Scorteccia termitarum''. It was first described by
Lodovico di Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mi ...
in 1936,
and has only been found in
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
.
References
Corinnidae
Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
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