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Scopoides

Scopoides is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989, found in Mexico and the United States.

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Scopoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Scopoides
Platnick, 19891
Type species
S. catharius
(Chamberlin, 1922)
Species

15, see text

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

As of October 2025, 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

References

  1. "Gen. Scopoides Platnick, 1989". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.