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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae |
| Genus: | Scopoides Platnick, 1989[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. catharius (Chamberlin, 1922) | |
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Scopoides is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989, found in Mexico and the United States.[2]
Two of the Chinese species originally part of this genus were moved to the newly described genus Platnickus in 2023, while the third was moved to genus Allozelotes.[3]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes twelve species:[1]
- Scopoides asceticus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
- Scopoides bryantae (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides cambridgei (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides catharius (Chamberlin, 1922) – United States (type species)
- Scopoides gertschi (Platnick, 1978) – United States
- Scopoides kastoni (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides naturalisticus (Chamberlin, 1924) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides nesiotes (Chamberlin, 1924) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides ochraceus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Scopoides rostratus (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
- Scopoides santiago (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
- Scopoides tlacolula (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Scopoides Platnick, 1989". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Platnick, N. I. (1989). "Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981". Journal of Arid Environments. 17 (3): 358. Bibcode:1989JArEn..17..358P. doi:10.1016/S0140-1963(18)30893-0.
- ↑ Liu, B. (2023). "Revision of the genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 from China, with description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". ZooKeys (1172): 203–215. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1172.105034.