Ameridion

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

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.

Species

As 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

• List of Theridiidae species

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.