Echinotheridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1963.[2]
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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: | Echinotheridion Levi, 1963[1] |
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| E. cartum Levi, 1963
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Species
editAs of May 2020[update] 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, 1999 – Brazil, 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Echinotheridion Levi, 1963". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- ^ 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.
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