Scoloderus Simon, 1887

Díaz-Guevara, David R. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2025, A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953, Zootaxa 5660 (4), pp. 587-595 : 591

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scientific name	Scoloderus Simon, 1887
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Genus Scoloderus Simon, 1887 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Scoloderus species can be easily distinguished from other Araneidae genera by the following characteristics: a bulging, helmet-shaped carapace without two knobs, high clypeus of at most two-and-a-half diameters of the anterior median eyes, a pedicel generally attached to the posterior third of an abdomen that is not projected anteriorly ( Traw 1996; see Levi 2002, figs 38–39).

Distribution. USA to Argentina.

Composition. Scoloderus ackerlyi Traw, 1996 , S. cordatus (Taczanowski, 1879) , S. gibber (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) , S. neilli sp. nov., S. nigriceps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) , and S. tuberculifer (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) .