Abstract
Spiders of the Scytodidae family are popularly known as "spitting spiders", due to their characteristic hunting habit, in which they eject a sticky silk produced in the prosoma glands through slits in the chelicerae, immobilizing their prey. The cluster of silk and poison is ejected very quickly (140ms), and can hit its target from a few centimeters away. They mostly have a nocturnal habi…