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Genus of spiders

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

Ameridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995. Species of this genus are found in Mexico, Central America, Northern South America and the West Indies.

Species

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

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

List of Theridiidae species

References

^ 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.

Taxon identifiers
Ameridion	Wikidata: Q5303806 Wikispecies: Ameridion ADW: Ameridion BioLib: 468097 CoL: TQB EoL: 112033 GBIF: 2157171 iNaturalist: 250004 IRMNG: 1053186 ITIS: 847844 NCBI: 233290 Open Tree of Life: 705811 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00664

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