Biology:Sphodros

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Sphodros
Sphodros rufipes non-crossing chel.jpg
S. rufipes
Scientific classification e
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) 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/433. 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. https://bugguide.net/node/view/50660. Retrieved 2019-05-16. 

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