{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Mexigonus | image = JAL14-8959_Mexigonus_male.jpg | image_caption = Male ''Mexigonus'' sp. in Jalisco, Mexico | authority = Edwards, 2003<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''M. minutus'' | type_species_authority = (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text }} '''''Mexigonus''''' is a genus of North American jumping spiders that was first described by G. B. Edwards in 2003.<ref name=Edwa2003>{{cite journal| last=Edwards| first=G. B.| year=2003| title=A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico| journal=Insecta Mundi| pages=65–75| volume=16| author-link=G. B. Edwards (entomologist)}}</ref> The name is a reference to Mexico, where the first identified species were found.
==Species== {{as of|2019|07}} it contains four species, found only in Mexico and the United States:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Mexigonus Edwards, 2003| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-08-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2787| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Mexigonus arizonensis'' <small>(Banks, 1904)</small> – USA, Mexico *''Mexigonus dentichelis'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)</small> – Mexico *''Mexigonus minutus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)</small> (type) – USA, Mexico *''Mexigonus morosus'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)</small> – USA
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Mexico Category:Spiders of the United States
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