Rugathodes

Taxobox
name = "Rugathodes"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Theridiidae
genus = "Rugathodes"
genus_authority = Archer, 1950
diversity_link = List of Theridiidae species#Rugathodes
diversity = 8 species
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subdivision_ranks = Species
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Rugathodes is a species of theridiid spiders. They have a mainly paleotropical distribution, but "R. acoreensis" and "R. pico" are endemic to the Azores, and "R. aurantius" is holarctic. "R. sexpunctatus" is found in North America as well as Russia.

"R. aurantius" and "R. sexpunctatus" are sister species. The genera "Theridion" and "Wamba" are closely related.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). "Journal of Arachnology" 29(3):396-412. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v29_n3/arac_29_03_396.pdf PDF] ]

pecies

* "Rugathodes acoreensis" Wunderlich, 1992 (Azores)
* "Rugathodes aurantius" (Emerton, 1915) (Holarctic)
* "Rugathodes bellicosus" (Simon, 1873) (Europe, Russia)
* "Rugathodes instabilis" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1871) (Europe, Russia, Ukraine)
* "Rugathodes madeirensis" Wunderlich, 1987 (Madeira)
* "Rugathodes nigrolimbatus" (Yaginuma, 1972) (Japan)
* "Rugathodes pico" (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989) (Azores)
* "Rugathodes sexpunctatus" (Emerton, 1882) (USA, Canada, Alaska, Russia)

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