Rugathodes

Rugathodes
	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
	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^[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

1 2 "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.

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Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen. p. 435.
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Rugathodes

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
8, see text