{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Sphodros | image = Sphodros_rufipes_non-crossing_chel.jpg | image_caption = ''S. rufipes'' | authority = Walckenaer, 1835<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. abboti'' | type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1835 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 7, see text }}
'''''Sphodros''''' is a genus of North American purseweb spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1835.<ref name=Walc1835>{{cite journal| last=Walckenaer| first=C. A.| year=1835| title=Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de ''Mygale'', sur les théraphoses et les divers genres dont se compose cette tribu d'Aranéides.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=637–651| volume=4}}</ref> It was considered a synonym of ''Atypus'' until 1980.<ref name=Gert1980>{{cite journal| last1=Gertsch| first1=W. J.| last2=Platnick| first2=N. I.| year=1980| title=A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)| journal=American Museum Novitates| issue=2704| page=15}}</ref><ref name=NMBE />
==Species== thumb|right|Tube of a ''Sphodros'' species {{as of|2019|04}} it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/433| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref><ref name=bugguide>{{cite web| title=Genus Sphodros| publisher=BugGuide| accessdate=2019-05-16| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/50660}}</ref> *''Sphodros abboti'' <small>Walckenaer, 1835</small> (type) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida *''Sphodros atlanticus'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Eastern and Central United States *''Sphodros coylei'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – South Carolina, Virginia *''Sphodros fitchi'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa *''Sphodros niger'' <small>(Hentz, 1842)</small> – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas) *''Sphodros paisano'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Southeastern Texas, Mexico *''Sphodros rufipes'' <small>(Latreille, 1829)</small> – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)
==References== {{Wikispecies|Sphodros}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Atypidae Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Spiders of North America Category:Taxa named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer Category:Taxa described in 1835
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