Sosticus

Sosticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Sosticus; Chamberlin, 1922
Type species
	S. insularis; (Banks, 1895)
Species
	10, see text
Synonyms
	Sostogeus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940;

Sosticus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains ten species:

Sosticus californicus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 – California (USA)
Sosticus dherikanalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
Sosticus insularis (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA, Canada
Sosticus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 – India
Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
Sosticus pawani Gajbe, 1993 – India
Sosticus poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
Sosticus solanensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
Sosticus sundargarhensis Gajbe, 1979 – India

1 2 3 "Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
↑ Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1976). "A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America". American Museum Novitates (2594): 9.
↑ Chamberlin, R. V. (1922). "The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 35: 145–172.
↑ "Genus Sosticus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-05.

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