Biology:Echinotheridion

From HandWiki
Revision as of 04:09, 10 February 2024 by WikiGary (talk | contribs) (linkage)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Short description: Genus of spiders

Echinotheridion
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Echinotheridion
Levi, 1963[1]
Type species
E. cartum
Levi, 1963
Species

9, see text

Echinotheridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1963.[2]

Species

(As of May 2020) it contains nine species, found in South America, with the exception of E. gibberosum, found on Madeira and the Canary Islands.:[1]

  • Echinotheridion andresito Ramírez & González, 1999Brazil , Argentina
  • Echinotheridion cartum Levi, 1963 (type) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Echinotheridion elicolum Levi, 1963 – Venezuela
  • Echinotheridion gibberosum (Kulczyński, 1899) – Madeira, Canary Is.
  • Echinotheridion levii Ramírez & González, 1999 – Brazil
  • Echinotheridion lirum Marques & Buckup, 1989 – Brazil
  • Echinotheridion otlum Levi, 1963 – Ecuador
  • Echinotheridion urarum Buckup & Marques, 1989 – Brazil
  • Echinotheridion utibile (Keyserling, 1884) – Brazil

Formerly included:

  • E. pseudogibberosum (Schmidt, 1973) (Transferred to Tidarren)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Echinotheridion Levi, 1963. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3478. Retrieved 2020-06-19. 
  2. Levi, H. W. (1963). "American spiders of the genus Achaearanea and the new genus Echinotheridion (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 129: 187–240. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5302909 entry