Editing Spitting spider (section)

{{short description|Family of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cretaceous|present}}
| name = Spitting spiders
| image = Scytodes thoracica (aka).jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Scytodes thoracica]]''
| image2 = Scytodes male spitting spider South Africa 9502s.jpg
| image2_caption = ''[[Scytodes]]'' male, showing pedipalps
| taxon = Scytodidae
| authority = [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]], 1864
| range_map = Distribution.scytodidae.1.png
| diversity = [[#Genera|4 genera]], [[List of Scytodidae species|252 species]]
| diversity_ref = <ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''Spitting spiders''' are a family of [[Araneomorphae|araneomorph]] [[spider]]s, the family '''Scytodidae''', first described by [[John Blackwall]] in 1864.<ref>{{cite book| last=Blackwall| first=J.| year=1864| title=A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland| publisher=Ray Society, London| pages=175–384}}</ref> It contains over 250 [[species]] in five [[genus|genera]],<ref name=NMBE /> of which ''[[Scytodes]]'' is the best-known.