| 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  | |
| Species | |
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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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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
Wikispecies has information related to Sphodros.
- 1 2 3 "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.
 
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