Sosticus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.[3]
Species
As of May 2019 it contains ten species:[1]
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Sosticus californicus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 – California[4] (USA)
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Sosticus dherikanalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
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Sosticus insularis (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA, Canada
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Sosticus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 – India
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Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
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Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
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Sosticus pawani Gajbe, 1993 – India
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Sosticus poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
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Sosticus solanensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
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Sosticus sundargarhensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
References
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^ a b c "Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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^ 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.
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^ Chamberlin, R. V. (1922). "The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 35: 145–172.
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^ "Genus Sosticus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
