Mexigonus
Mexigonus | |
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Male Mexigonus sp. in Jalisco, Mexico | |
Scientific classification | |
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 (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Mexigonus is a genus of North American jumping spiders that was first described by G. B. 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]
- (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
- (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
- Mexigonus minutus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) (type) – USA, Mexico
- Mexigonus morosus (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Mexigonus Edwards, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Salticidae genera
- Salticidae
- Spiders of Mexico
- Spiders of the United States
- Salticidae stubs