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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Sosticus
|authority=[[Ralph Vary Chamberlin|Chamberlin]], 1922<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[[Sosticus insularis|S. insularis]]''
|type_species_authority=([[Nathan Banks|Banks]], 1895)
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=10, [[#Species|see text]]
|synonyms=*''Sostogeus'' <small>[[Ralph Vary Chamberlin|Chamberlin]] & [[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]], 1940</small><ref name=Plat1976>{{cite journal|last=Platnick|first=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1976|title=A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America|journal=American Museum Novitates|volume=2594|page=9}}</ref>
|synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Sosticus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Gnaphosidae|ground spiders]] that was first described by [[Ralph Vary Chamberlin|R. V. Chamberlin]] in 1922.<ref name=Cham1922>{{cite journal|last=Chamberlin|first=R. V.|year=1922|title=The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae.|journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington|pages=145–172|volume=35}}</ref>
==Species==
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains ten species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web|title=Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922|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/991|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Sosticus californicus]]'' <small>[[Norman I. Platnick|Platnick]] & Shadab, 1976</small> – California<ref name=bugguide>{{cite web|title=Genus Sosticus|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-05|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/96015}}</ref> (USA)
*''[[Sosticus dherikanalensis]]'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus insularis]]'' <small>(Banks, 1895)</small> ([[Type species|type]]) – USA, Canada
*''[[Sosticus jabalpurensis]]'' <small>Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus loricatus]]'' <small>([[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]], 1866)</small> – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
*''[[Sosticus nainitalensis]]'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus pawani]]'' <small>Gajbe, 1993</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus poonaensis]]'' <small>[[B. K. Tikader|Tikader]], 1982</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus solanensis]]'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
*''[[Sosticus sundargarhensis]]'' <small>Gajbe, 1979</small> – India
==References==
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[[Category:Gnaphosidae genera]]
[[Category:Gnaphosidae]]
[[Category:Holarctic spiders]]
[[Category:Spiders of the Indian subcontinent]]
[[Category:Spiders of North America]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin]]
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