Echinotheridion

Echinotheridion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Echinotheridion Levi, 1963 [1]
Type species
E. cartum Levi, 1963
Species
9, see text

Echinotheridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1963. ^[2]

Species

As 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

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. 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.
2. 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.