Ameridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995.[2] Species of this genus are found in Mexico, Central America, Northern South America and the West Indies.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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)
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Species
editAs of May 2020[update] 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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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