| Rugathodes | |
|---|---|
| |
| Rugathodes sexpunctatus, female | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Rugathodes Archer, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| R. sexpunctatus (Emerton, 1882) | |
| Species | |
|
8, see text | |
Rugathodes is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1950. It is closely related to members of Theridion and Wamba.
Species
As of June 2020 it contains eight species with a mostly paleotropical distribution:
- Rugathodes acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Azores
- Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915) – North America, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan
- Rugathodes bellicosus (Simon, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
- Rugathodes instabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
- Rugathodes madeirensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
- Rugathodes nigrolimbatus (Yaginuma, 1972) – Japan
- Rugathodes pico (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989) – Azores
- Rugathodes sexpunctatus (Emerton, 1882) (type) – USA, Canada, Russia (Commander Is.). Introduced to Britain
In synonymy:
- R. lowriei (Barrows, 1945) = Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915)
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Rugathodes Archer, 1950". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- Archer, A. F. (1950). "A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species". Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History. 30: 1–40.
- Stiles, G.J.; Coyle, F.A. (2001). "Habitat distribution and life history of species in the spider genera Theridion, Rugathodes, and Wamba in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Araneae, Theridiidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 29 (3): 396–412. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0396:HDALHO]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86847636.
External links
Further reading
- Wunderlich, J. (1993). "The Macaronesian cave-dwelling spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 33: 681–686.
- Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen. p. 435.
- Levi, H. W. (1957). "The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 112: 1–124.
- Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 2: 1–522.
 | This Theridiidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |