Sphodros

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Mygalomorphae
Superfamilia: Atypoidea

Familia: Atypidae
Genus: Sphodros

Species: S. abboti - S. atlanticus - S. coylei - S. fitchi - S. niger - S. paisano - S. rufipes

Name

Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835

Type species: Sphodros abboti Walckenaer, 1835
References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Sphodros

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

"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.