Rugathodes
| Rugathodes | |
|---|---|
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| Rugathodes sexpunctatus, female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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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[update] 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)