Novodamus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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| taxon = Novodamus

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| authority = Harvey, 1995

| type_species = N. nodatus (Karsch, 1878)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| N. nodatus|(Karsch, 1878) — Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)

| N. supernus|Harvey, 1995 — Australia (New South Wales)}}

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Novodamus is a genus of Australian cribellate spiders first described by Mark Stephen Harvey in 1995.{{cite journal| last=Harvey| first=M. S.| year=1995| title=The systematics of the spider family Nicodamidae (Araneae: Amaurobioidea).| journal=Invertebrate Taxonomy| pages=279–386| volume=9| issue=2| doi=10.1071/IT9950279}} {{as of|2024|11}} it contains only two species.{{cite web| title=Gen. Novodamus Harvey, 1995| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-04-09| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2064}}