Sphodros

Sphodros
S. rufipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Atypidae
Genus:	Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835[1]
Type species
S. abboti Walckenaer, 1835
Species
7, see text

Sphodros is a genus of North American purseweb spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1835.[2] It was considered a synonym of Atypus until 1980.[3][1]

Species

Tube of a Sphodros species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:[1][4]

• Sphodros abboti Walckenaer, 1835 (type) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida
• Sphodros atlanticus Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Eastern and Central United States
• Sphodros coylei Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – South Carolina, Virginia
• Sphodros fitchi Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa
• Sphodros niger (Hentz, 1842) – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas)
• Sphodros paisano Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Southeastern Texas, Mexico
• Sphodros rufipes (Latreille, 1829) – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)

References

1. "Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
2. Walckenaer, C. A. (1835). "Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de Mygale, sur les théraphoses et les divers genres dont se compose cette tribu d'Aranéides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 4: 637–651.
3. Gertsch, W. J.; Platnick, N. I. (1980). "A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". American Museum Novitates (2704): 15.
4. "Genus Sphodros". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-16.