a spider with bold markings and a large cephalothorax on a sheet of silk under a log

a spider upside down holding an egg sac under its body

TIL there's another genus of spitting #spider (Scytodidae) in the US! While in the Phoenix desert during #EntSoc24, we uncovered 2 specimens of #Dictis striatipes (one w/egg sac).

I thought all US spp. were in the genus #Scytodes but apparently this 1 sp. was synonymized [4 genera globally]