Sphodros

Sphodros
S. rufipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Atypidae
Genus: Sphodros
Walckenaer, 1835
Species

See text.

Diversity
7 species
tube of a Sphodros species

Sphodros is a genus of mygalomorph spiders that occurs in the USA and Mexico. Its species were removed from genus Atypus and put in its own genus in 1980.[1]

Species

Notes

  1. Platnick 2009

References

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