Mexigonus

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Mexigonus
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Male Mexigonus sp. in Jalisco, Mexico
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Mexigonus
Edwards, 2003 [1]
Type species
M. minutus
Species

4, see text

Mexigonus is a genus of North American jumping spiders that was first described by Glavis Bernard Edwards in 2003. [2] The name is a reference Mexico, where the first identified species were found.

Species

As of July 2019 it contains four species, found only in Mexico and the United States: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Mexigonus Edwards, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. Edwards, G. B. (2003). "A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico". Insecta Mundi. 16: 65–75.