Exalbidion

Exalbidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995.[2]

Exalbidion
Scientific classification
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)
Species

6, see text

Species

As of May 2020 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

References

  1. "Gen. Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  2. 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.


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