Sosticus
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Sosticus
|authority=Chamberlin, 1922
|type_species=S. insularis
|type_species_authority=(Banks, 1895)
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=10, see text
|synonyms=*Sostogeus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1976|title=A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=2594|page=9}}
}}
Sosticus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.{{cite journal|last=Chamberlin|first=R. V.|year=1922|title=The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae.|journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington|pages=145–172|volume=35}}
Species
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains ten species:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-05|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/991|doi=10.24436/2}}
- Sosticus californicus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 – California{{cite web|title=Genus Sosticus|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-05|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/96015}} (USA)
- Sosticus dherikanalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
- Sosticus insularis (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA, Canada
- Sosticus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 – India
- Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to North America
- Sosticus nainitalensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
- Sosticus pawani Gajbe, 1993 – India
- Sosticus poonaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
- Sosticus solanensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
- Sosticus sundargarhensis Gajbe, 1979 – India
References
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Category:Spiders of the Indian subcontinent
Category:Spiders of North America
Category:Taxa named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin
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