• Source: Rugathodes

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


List of Theridiidae species




References






External links


Rugathodes at BugGuide




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.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Theridiidae
• Rugathodes
• Rugathodes sexpunctatus
• Rugathodes aurantius
• Rugathodes bellicosus
• Theridiidae
• List of Theridiidae species
• List of arachnids of Ireland
• Theridion grallator