There are three purse-web spider species in Kansas, all in the genus Sphodros. Two of these species, S. niger (Hentz) and S. rufipes (Latreille), are known only from the eastern edge of the state, while the range of S. fitchi Gertsch and Platnick extends into western Kansas which is the westernmost distribution record for the family in the New World.
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Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
Vol. 107 • No. 1
April 2004
Vol. 107 • No. 1
April 2004
Atypidae
purse-web spiders
Sphodros