# Sosticus

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Sosticus
|authority=[Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin), 1922<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[S. insularis](/source/Sosticus_insularis)''
|type_species_authority=([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1895)
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=10, see text
|synonyms=*''Sostogeus'' <small>[Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin) & [Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._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](/source/genus) of [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) that was first described by [R. V. Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_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](/source/Sosticus_californicus)'' <small>[Platnick](/source/Norman_I._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](/source/Sosticus_dherikanalensis)'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[Sosticus insularis](/source/Sosticus_insularis)'' <small>(Banks, 1895)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – USA, Canada
*''[Sosticus jabalpurensis](/source/Sosticus_jabalpurensis)'' <small>Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001</small> – India
*''[Sosticus loricatus](/source/Sosticus_loricatus)'' <small>([L. Koch](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch), 1866)</small> – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
*''[Sosticus nainitalensis](/source/Sosticus_nainitalensis)'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[Sosticus pawani](/source/Sosticus_pawani)'' <small>Gajbe, 1993</small> – India
*''[Sosticus poonaensis](/source/Sosticus_poonaensis)'' <small>[Tikader](/source/B._K._Tikader), 1982</small> – India
*''[Sosticus solanensis](/source/Sosticus_solanensis)'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[Sosticus sundargarhensis](/source/Sosticus_sundargarhensis)'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India

==References==
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Category:Gnaphosidae genera
Category:Gnaphosidae
Category:Holarctic spiders
Category:Spiders of the Indian subcontinent
Category:Spiders of North America
Category:Taxa named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin

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