{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Rugathodes | image = R sexpunctatus female.jpg | image_caption = ''Rugathodes sexpunctatus'', female | authority = Archer, 1950<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''R. sexpunctatus'' | type_species_authority = (Emerton, 1882) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 8, see text }} '''''Rugathodes''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1950.<ref name=Arch1950>{{cite journal| last=Archer| first=A. F.| year=1950| title=A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species| journal=Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History| pages=1–40| volume=30| author-link=Allan_Frost_Archer}}</ref> It is closely related to members of ''Theridion'' and ''Wamba''.<ref name=Stil2001>{{cite journal| last1=Stiles| first1=G.J.| last2=Coyle| first2=F.A.| year=2001| title=Habitat distribution and life history of species in the spider genera ''Theridion'', ''Rugathodes'', and ''Wamba'' in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=29| issue=3| pages=396–412| doi=10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0396:HDALHO]2.0.CO;2| s2cid=86847636| url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v29_n3/arac_29_03_396.pdf}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|06}} it contains eight species with a mostly paleotropical distribution:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Rugathodes Archer, 1950| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3533| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Rugathodes acoreensis'' <small>Wunderlich, 1992</small> – Azores *''Rugathodes aurantius'' <small>(Emerton, 1915)</small> – North America, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan *''Rugathodes bellicosus'' <small>(Simon, 1873)</small> – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia) *''Rugathodes instabilis'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)</small> – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia) *''Rugathodes madeirensis'' <small>Wunderlich, 1987</small> – Madeira *''Rugathodes nigrolimbatus'' <small>(Yaginuma, 1972)</small> – Japan *''Rugathodes pico'' <small>(Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)</small> – Azores *''Rugathodes sexpunctatus'' <small>(Emerton, 1882)</small> (type) – USA, Canada, Russia (Commander Is.). Introduced to Britain
'''In synonymy:''' *''R. lowriei'' <small>(Barrows, 1945)</small> = ''Rugathodes aurantius'' <small>(Emerton, 1915)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *''[https://bugguide.net/node/view/369394 Rugathodes]'' at BugGuide
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=1993| title=The Macaronesian cave-dwelling spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae)| journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum| pages=681–686| volume=33}} *{{cite book| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=1987| title=Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen| publisher=Triops, Langen| pages=435}} *{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1957| title=The spider genera ''Enoplognatha'', ''Theridion'', and ''Paidisca'' in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| pages=1–124| volume=112}} *{{cite journal| last=Le Peru| first=B.| year=2011| title=The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae| journal=Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon| pages=1–522| volume=2}}
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Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of North America Category:Theridiidae Category:Taxa named by Allan Frost Archer
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