Ameridion

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

Ameridion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Ameridion
Wunderlich, 1995[1]
Type species
A. petrum
(Levi, 1959)
Species

27, see text

Species

As of May 2020 it contains twenty-seven species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico:[1]

  • Ameridion armouri (Levi, 1959)Panama, Trinidad
  • Ameridion aspersum (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902)Guatemala
  • Ameridion atlixco (Levi, 1959)Mexico
  • Ameridion bridgesi (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion chilapa (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion clemens (Levi, 1959)Jamaica
  • Ameridion cobanum (Levi, 1959) – Guatemala
  • Ameridion colima (Levi, 1959) – Mexico, Ecuador
  • Ameridion lathropi (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion malkini (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion marvum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Venezuela
  • Ameridion moctezuma (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion musawas (Levi, 1959)Nicaragua
  • Ameridion paidiscum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion panum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion petrum (Levi, 1959) (type) – Panama, Trinidad, Peru
  • Ameridion plantatum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion progum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion quantum (Levi, 1959)Costa Rica, Panama
  • Ameridion reservum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion rinconense (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion ruinum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
  • Ameridion schmidti (Levi, 1959) – Costa Rica
  • Ameridion signaculum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Brazil
  • Ameridion signum (Levi, 1959) – Panama
  • Ameridion tempum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Brazil
  • Ameridion unanimum (Keyserling, 1891) – Mexico to Brazil

In synonymy:

  • A. quemadum = Ameridion unanimum (Keyserling, 1891)

See also

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Ameridion Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  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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