Sphodros
Appearance
Sphodros | |
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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
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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
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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
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Wikispecies has information related to Sphodros.
- ^ a b c "Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gertsch, W. J.; Platnick, N. I. (1980). "A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". American Museum Novitates (2704): 15.
- ^ "Genus Sphodros". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-16.