Biology:Sosticus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Sosticus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Sosticus
Chamberlin, 1922[1]
Type species
S. insularis
(Banks, 1895)
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Sostogeus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940[2]

Sosticus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains ten species:[1]

  • Sosticus californicus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 – California[4] (USA)
  • Sosticus dherikanalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
  • Sosticus insularis (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA, Canada
  • Sosticus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 – India
  • Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
  • Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
  • Sosticus pawani Gajbe, 1993 – India
  • Sosticus poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
  • Sosticus solanensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
  • Sosticus sundargarhensis Gajbe, 1979 – India

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/991. 
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1976). "A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America". American Museum Novitates 2594: 9. 
  3. Chamberlin, R. V. (1922). "The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae.". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 35: 145–172. 
  4. "Genus Sosticus". BugGuide. https://bugguide.net/node/view/96015. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2497215 entry