Exalbidion

Exalbidion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995 [1]
Type species
E. sexmaculatum (Keyserling, 1884)
Species
6, see text

Exalbidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains six species, found in the Caribbean and from Mexico to Brazil: ^[1]

• Exalbidion barroanum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Ecuador
• Exalbidion dotanum (Banks, 1914) – Mexico to Panama
• Exalbidion fungosum (Keyserling, 1886) – Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
• Exalbidion pallisterorum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
• Exalbidion rufipunctum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador
• Exalbidion sexmaculatum (Keyserling, 1884) (type) – Guatemala, Caribbean to Brazil

In synonymy:

• E. tungurahua = Exalbidion fungosum(Keyserling, 1886)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Exalbidion Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-19.
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.