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Dictis

Zamani, Alireza;Stockmann, Mark;Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.;Rheims, Cristina A.

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Dictis is a genus of spitting spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyScytodidae

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Parent taxon
spitting spider
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taxon name
Dictis
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genus
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L. Koch, 1872
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Dictis is a genus of spitting spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.

==Species== it contains seven species, found in Asia, Oceania, North America and Seychelles: Dictis edwardsi Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China Dictis elongata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 – Thailand, Laos Dictis oranhutan Fomichev & Omelko, 2023 – Indonesia Dictis soeur (Saaristo, 1997) – Seychelles Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Iran, tropical Asia, Korea, Japan, China to Australia, Pacific Isles. Introduced to USA, Mexico Dictis thailandica Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 – Thailand Dictis uncata Wu, M. Y. Zhang, M. M. Zhang & Yang, 2023 – China

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