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| | What's That Bug: Spiders |
 | | Sphodros rufipes Found in Alabama The First Recorded Distribution of the Purseweb Spider, Sphodros rufipes (Family Atypidae), from Alabama. |
 | | Rose M. Parrino, W. Mike Howell,Ph.D., and Ronald L. Jenkins,Ph.D., Department of Biology, Samford University, Birmingham, AL 35229 The spider family Atypidae represents an ancient branch of the infraorder Mygalomorphae. |
 | | These large, primitive spiders have been recorded for most of the southeastern United States, but no records have been documented for the State of Alabama. |
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