Sphodros

Sphodros is a genus of North American purseweb spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1835. It was considered a synonym of Atypus until 1980.

==Species== thumb|right|Tube of a Sphodros species it contains seven species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Sphodros abboti Walckenaer, 1835 (type) – Southern Georgia, Northern Florida Sphodros atlanticus Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Eastern and Central United States Sphodros coylei Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – South Carolina, Virginia Sphodros fitchi Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa Sphodros niger (Hentz, 1842) – Canada, Northeastern United States (south to Tennessee and east to Kansas) Sphodros paisano Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 – Southeastern Texas, Mexico Sphodros rufipes (Latreille, 1829) – Southeastern United States (east from Texas)