title: Rugathodes
text: # Rugathodes
  
  Rugathodes is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1950. It is closely related to members of Theridion and Wamba.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2020 it contains eight species with a mostly paleotropical distribution:
  
  * Rugathodes acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Azores
  * Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915) – North America, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan
  * Rugathodes bellicosus (Simon, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
  * Rugathodes instabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
  * Rugathodes madeirensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
  * Rugathodes nigrolimbatus (Yaginuma, 1972) – Japan
  * Rugathodes pico (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989) – Azores
  * Rugathodes sexpunctatus (Emerton, 1882) (type) – USA, Canada, Russia (Commander Is.). Introduced to Britain
  
  In synonymy:
  
  * R. lowriei (Barrows, 1945) = Rugathodes aurantius (Emerton, 1915)
  