Dictis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Haplogynae
Superfamilia: Scytodoidea

Familia: Scytodidae
Genus: Dictis
Species: D. elongata – D. soeur – D. striatipes – D. thailandica
Name

Dictis Koch, 1872

Type species: Dictis striatipes L. Koch, 1872, by monotypy
Synonymy

Soeuria Saaristo, 1997: 55 (synonymized by Zamani et al., 2022: 158)
Type species: Soeuria soeur Michael Ilmari Saaristo 1997, by original designation and monotypy.

References
Primary references

Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg, 1: 105–368. [294]

Additional references

Saaristo, M. I. 1997. Scytotids [sic] (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) of the granitic islands of Seychelles. Phelsuma 5: 49–57. [56]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
Zamani, A., Stockmann, M., Magalhães, I.L.F. & Rheims, C.A. 2022. New taxonomic considerations in the spitting spider family Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5092(2): 151–175. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.2.1. Paywall. Reference page.

Dictis is a genus of spitting spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.[2]
Species

As of January 2022 it contains four species, found in Asia, Oceania, North America and Seychelles:[1]

Dictis elongata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010 – Thailand
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