Biology:Exalbidion

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Exalbidion
Scientific classification e
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)
Species

6, see text

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

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. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3484. 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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