''Scotinoecus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
n
funnel-web spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.
Originally placed with the
curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980.
Species
it contains four species:
*''
Scotinoecus cinereopilosus''
(Simon, 1889) (
type) – Chile
*''
Scotinoecus fasciatus''
Tullgren, 1901 – Chile, Argentina
*''
Scotinoecus major''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
*''
Scotinoecus ruiles''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
References
Hexathelidae
Mygalomorphae genera
Spiders of South America
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