Sphodros Explained

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

Species

it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:^{[3] [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)

Notes and References

1. 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. 637–651. 4.
2. Gertsch. W. J.. Platnick. N. I.. 1980. A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates. 2704. 15.
3. Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-16. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
4. Web site: Genus Sphodros. BugGuide. 2019-05-16.