Biology:Mexigonus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Mexigonus
JAL14-8959 Mexigonus male.jpg
Male Mexigonus sp. in Jalisco, Mexico
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Mexigonus
Edwards, 2003[1]
Type species
M. minutus
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
Species

4, see text

Mexigonus is a genus of North American jumping spiders that was first described by G. B. Edwards in 2003.[2] The name is a reference Mexico, where the first identified species were found.

Species

(As of July 2019) it contains four species, found only in Mexico and the United States:[1]

  • Mexigonus arizonensis (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
  • Mexigonus dentichelis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
  • Mexigonus minutus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) (type) – USA, Mexico
  • Mexigonus morosus (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Mexigonus Edwards, 2003. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2787. Retrieved 2019-08-06. 
  2. Edwards, G. B. (2003). "A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico". Insecta Mundi 16: 65–75. 

Wikidata ☰ Q652384 entry