page_title: Sphodros
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Sphodros / Species
caption_attribution_description: Sphodros sp. tube, Appalachia.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: As of April 2019 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)
caption: Tube of a Sphodros species
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