Exalbidion
Appearance
Exalbidion | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Theridiidae |
Genus: | Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995[1] |
Type species | |
E. sexmaculatum (Keyserling, 1884)
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Species | |
6, see text |
Exalbidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2020[update] it contains six species, found in the Caribbean and from Mexico to Brazil:[1]
- Exalbidion barroanum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Ecuador
- Exalbidion dotanum (Banks, 1914) – Mexico to Panama
- Exalbidion fungosum (Keyserling, 1886) – Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
- Exalbidion pallisterorum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
- Exalbidion rufipunctum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador
- Exalbidion sexmaculatum (Keyserling, 1884) (type) – Guatemala, Caribbean to Brazil
In synonymy:
- E. tungurahua = Exalbidion fungosum (Keyserling, 1886)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Revision und Neubeschreibung einiger Gattungen der Familie Theridiidae aus der Nearktis und Neotropis (Arachnida: Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 609–615.