{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Sosticus |authority=Chamberlin, 1922<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''S. insularis'' |type_species_authority=(Banks, 1895) |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=10, see text |synonyms=*''Sostogeus'' <small>Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940</small><ref name=Plat1976>{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1976|title=A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=2594|page=9}}</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE /> }}

'''''Sosticus''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.<ref name=Cham1922>{{cite journal|last=Chamberlin|first=R. V.|year=1922|title=The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae.|journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington|pages=145–172|volume=35}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains ten species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-05|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/991|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Sosticus californicus'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1976</small> – California<ref name=bugguide>{{cite web|title=Genus Sosticus|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-05|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/96015}}</ref> (USA) *''Sosticus dherikanalensis'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India *''Sosticus insularis'' <small>(Banks, 1895)</small> (type) – USA, Canada *''Sosticus jabalpurensis'' <small>Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001</small> – India *''Sosticus loricatus'' <small>(L. Koch, 1866)</small> – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America *''Sosticus nainitalensis'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India *''Sosticus pawani'' <small>Gajbe, 1993</small> – India *''Sosticus poonaensis'' <small>Tikader, 1982</small> – India *''Sosticus solanensis'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India *''Sosticus sundargarhensis'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India

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