# Sphodros

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Sphodros
| image = Sphodros_rufipes_non-crossing_chel.jpg
| image_caption = ''[S. rufipes](/source/Sphodros_rufipes)''
| authority = [Walckenaer](/source/Charles_Athanase_Walckenaer), 1835<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[S. abboti](/source/Sphodros_abboti)''
| type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1835
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 7, see text
}}

'''''Sphodros''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [North America](/source/North_America)n [purseweb spiders](/source/Atypidae) first described by [Charles Athanase Walckenaer](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Sphodros_abboti)'' <small>Walckenaer, 1835</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida
*''[Sphodros atlanticus](/source/Sphodros_atlanticus)'' <small>[Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._Gertsch) & [Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick), 1980</small> – Eastern and Central United States
*''[Sphodros coylei](/source/Sphodros_coylei)'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – South Carolina, Virginia
*''[Sphodros fitchi](/source/Sphodros_fitchi)'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa
*''[Sphodros niger](/source/Sphodros_niger)'' <small>([Hentz](/source/Nicholas_Marcellus_Hentz), 1842)</small> – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas)
*''[Sphodros paisano](/source/Sphodros_paisano)'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Southeastern Texas, Mexico
*''[Sphodros rufipes](/source/Sphodros_rufipes)'' <small>([Latreille](/source/Pierre_Andr%C3%A9_Latreille), 1829)</small> – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)

==References==
{{Wikispecies|Sphodros}}
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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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