Sphodros

Sphodros is a genus of North American purseweb spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1835.^[2] It was considered a synonym of Atypus until 1980.^[3][1]

Sphodros
S. rufipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Atypidae
Genus:	Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835[1]
Type species
S. abboti Walckenaer, 1835
Species
7, see text

Species

Tube of a Sphodros species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:^[1][4]

• Sphodros abboti Walckenaer, 1835 (type) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida
• Sphodros atlanticus Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Eastern and Central United States
• Sphodros coylei Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – South Carolina, Virginia
• Sphodros fitchi Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa
• Sphodros niger (Hentz, 1842) – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas)
• Sphodros paisano Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Southeastern Texas, Mexico
• Sphodros rufipes (Latreille, 1829) – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)