Rugathodes

Rugathodes is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1950.^[2] It is closely related to members of Theridion and Wamba.^[3]

Rugathodes
Rugathodes sexpunctatus, female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Rugathodes Archer, 1950[1]
Type species
R. sexpunctatus (Emerton, 1882)
Species
8, see text

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains eight species with a mostly paleotropical distribution:^[1]

• Rugathodes acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Azores
• Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915) – North America, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan
• Rugathodes bellicosus (Simon, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
• Rugathodes instabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
• Rugathodes madeirensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
• Rugathodes nigrolimbatus (Yaginuma, 1972) – Japan
• Rugathodes pico (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989) – Azores
• Rugathodes sexpunctatus (Emerton, 1882) (type) – USA, Canada, Russia (Commander Is.). Introduced to Britain

In synonymy:

• R. lowriei (Barrows, 1945) = Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species