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Ameridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995. Species of this genus are found in Mexico, Central America, Northern South America and the West Indies.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTheridiidae

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Ameridion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1995. Species of this genus are found in Mexico, Central America, Northern South America and the West Indies.

==Species== it contains twenty-seven species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico: Ameridion armouri (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Trinidad Ameridion aspersum (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala Ameridion atlixco (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion bridgesi (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion chilapa (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion clemens (Levi, 1959) – Jamaica Ameridion cobanum (Levi, 1959) – Guatemala Ameridion colima (Levi, 1959) – Mexico, Ecuador Ameridion lathropi (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion malkini (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion marvum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Venezuela Ameridion moctezuma (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion musawas (Levi, 1959) – Nicaragua Ameridion paidiscum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion panum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion petrum (Levi, 1959) (type) – Panama, Trinidad, Peru Ameridion plantatum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion progum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion quantum (Levi, 1959) – Costa Rica, Panama Ameridion reservum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion rinconense (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion ruinum (Levi, 1959) – Mexico Ameridion schmidti (Levi, 1959) – Costa Rica Ameridion signaculum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Brazil Ameridion signum (Levi, 1959) – Panama Ameridion tempum (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Brazil Ameridion unanimum (Keyserling, 1891) – Mexico to Brazil

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