| Echinotheridion | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Echinotheridion Levi, 1963 |
| Type species | |
| E. cartum Levi, 1963 | |
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Echinotheridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1963.
Species
As of May 2020 it contains nine species, found in South America, with the exception of E. gibberosum, found on Madeira and the Canary Islands.:
- 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
References
- ^ 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.
- 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.
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