Horcotes

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Horcotes

| authority = Crosby & Bishop, 1933

| type_species = H. quadricristatus

| type_species_authority = (Emerton, 1882)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| H. quadricristatus|(Emerton, 1882) – USA

| H. strandi|(Sytshevskaja, 1935) – Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Canada

| H. uncinatus|Barrows, 1945 – USA}}

}}

Horcotes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1933.{{cite journal| last1=Crosby| first1=C. R.| last2=Bishop| first2=S. C.| year=1933| title=American spiders: Erigonae, males with cephalic pits| journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America| pages=105–172| volume=26| doi=10.1093/aesa/26.1.105| doi-access=free}} {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only three species, found in Canada, Russia, and the United States: H. quadricristatus, H. strandi, and H. uncinatus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Horcotes Crosby & Bishop, 1933| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1350| doi=10.24436/2}}