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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Sphodros
| image = Sphodros_rufipes_non-crossing_chel.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Sphodros rufipes|S. rufipes]]''
| authority = [[Charles Athanase Walckenaer|Walckenaer]], 1835<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Sphodros abboti|S. abboti]]''
| type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1835
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 7, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Sphodros''''' is a [[genus]] of [[North America]]n [[Atypidae|purseweb spiders]] first described by [[Charles Athanase Walckenaer]] in 1835.<ref name=Walc1835>{{cite journal| last=Walckenaer| first=C. A.| year=1835| title=Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de ''Mygale'', sur les théraphoses et les divers genres dont se compose cette tribu d'Aranéides.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=637–651| volume=4}}</ref> It was considered a synonym of ''[[Atypus]]'' until 1980.<ref name=Gert1980>{{cite journal| last1=Gertsch| first1=W. J.| last2=Platnick| first2=N. I.| year=1980| title=A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)| journal=American Museum Novitates| issue=2704| page=15}}</ref><ref name=NMBE />
==Species==
[[Image:Sphodros sp. tube (Marshal Hedin).jpg|thumb|right|Tube of a ''Sphodros'' species]]
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sphodros Walckenaer, 1835| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/433| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref><ref name=bugguide>{{cite web| title=Genus Sphodros| publisher=BugGuide| accessdate=2019-05-16| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/50660}}</ref>
*''[[Sphodros abboti]]'' <small>Walckenaer, 1835</small> ([[Type species|type]]) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida
*''[[Sphodros atlanticus]]'' <small>[[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]] & [[Norman I. Platnick|Platnick]], 1980</small> – Eastern and Central United States
*''[[Sphodros coylei]]'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – South Carolina, Virginia
*''[[Sphodros fitchi]]'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa
*''[[Sphodros niger]]'' <small>([[Nicholas Marcellus Hentz|Hentz]], 1842)</small> – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas)
*''[[Sphodros paisano]]'' <small>Gertsch & Platnick, 1980</small> – Southeastern Texas, Mexico
*''[[Sphodros rufipes]]'' <small>([[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1829)</small> – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)
==References==
{{Wikispecies|Sphodros}}
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[[Category:Atypidae]]
[[Category:Mygalomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Spiders of North America]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer]]
[[Category:Taxa described in 1835]]
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