{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Synaphosus |authority=Platnick & Shadab, 1980<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''S. syntheticus'' |type_species_authority=(Chamberlin, 1924) |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=32, see text }}
'''''Synaphosus''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & M. U. Shadab in 1980.<ref name=Plat1980>{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1980|title=A revision of the North American spider genera ''Nodocion'', ''Litopyllus'', and ''Synaphosus'' (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).|journal=American Museum Novitates|pages=1–26|issue=2691}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains thirty-two species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980|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/993|doi=10.24436/2|author=<!---->}}</ref> *''Synaphosus cangshanus'' <small>Yang, Yang & Zhang, 2013</small> – China *''Synaphosus daweiensis'' <small>Yin, Bao & Peng, 2002</small> – China *''Synaphosus dubius'' <small>Marusik & Omelko, 2018</small> – Thailand *''Synaphosus evertsi'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Ivory Coast, Indonesia (Bali), Philippines *''Synaphosus femininis'' <small>Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001</small> – China, Laos, Indonesia (Java) *''Synaphosus gracillimus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Egypt, Israel *''Synaphosus intricatus'' <small>(Denis, 1947)</small> – Algeria, Egypt *''Synaphosus iunctus'' <small>Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018</small> – India *''Synaphosus jaegeri'' <small>Marusik & Omelko, 2018</small> – Laos *''Synaphosus kakamega'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Kenya *''Synaphosus karakumensis'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Turkmenistan *''Synaphosus khashm'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Saudi Arabia *''Synaphosus lehtineni'' <small>Marusik & Omelko, 2018</small> – Indonesia (Sulawesi) *''Synaphosus makhambetensis'' <small>Ponomarev, 2008</small> – Kazakhstan *''Synaphosus minimus'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1936)</small> – Libya, Egypt *''Synaphosus mongolicus'' <small>Marusik & Fomichev, 2016</small> – Mongolia *''Synaphosus nanus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Israel *''Synaphosus neali'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Iran, Pakistan *''Synaphosus ovtsharenkoi'' <small>Marusik & Fomichev, 2016</small> – Mongolia *''Synaphosus palearcticus'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Greece, Turkey to Central Asia *''Synaphosus paludis'' <small>(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940)</small> – USA *''Synaphosus raveni'' <small>Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001</small> – Thailand *''Synaphosus saidovi'' <small>Marusik & Fomichev, 2016</small> – Tajikistan *''Synaphosus sauvage'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy *''Synaphosus shirin'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Cyprus, Iran *''Synaphosus shmakovi'' <small>Marusik & Fomichev, 2016</small> – Mongolia *''Synaphosus soyunovi'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Turkmenistan *''Synaphosus syntheticus'' <small>(Chamberlin, 1924)</small> (type) – Libya, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia. Introduced to USA, Mexico *''Synaphosus taukum'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Kazakhstan *''Synaphosus trichopus'' <small>(Roewer, 1928)</small> – Greece, Crete *''Synaphosus turanicus'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Central Asia *''Synaphosus yatenga'' <small>Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994</small> – Burkina Faso
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of North America Category:Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick
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