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

Species

it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:

• 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)

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