# Mexigonus

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{{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](/source/Mexigonus_minutus)''
| type_species_authority = ([F. O. Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Frederick_Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge), 1901)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}
'''''Mexigonus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of North American [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) that was first described by [G. B. Edwards](/source/G._B._Edwards_(entomologist)) 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](/source/Mexigonus_arizonensis)'' <small>([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1904)</small> – USA, Mexico
*''[Mexigonus dentichelis](/source/Mexigonus_dentichelis)'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)</small> – Mexico
*''[Mexigonus minutus](/source/Mexigonus_minutus)'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – USA, Mexico
*''[Mexigonus morosus](/source/Mexigonus_morosus)'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)</small> – USA

==References==
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Category:Salticidae genera
Category:Salticidae
Category:Spiders of Mexico
Category:Spiders of the United States

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