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