Meleon

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Meleon
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Meleon
Wanless, 1984[1]
Type species
M. kenti
(Lessert, 1925)
Species

8, see text

Meleon is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains eight species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Congo
  • Meleon insulanus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008Madagascar
  • Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925) (type) – Angola, Southern Africa
  • Meleon madagascarensis (Wanless, 1978) – Madagascar
  • Meleon raharizonina Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
  • Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) – Madagascar
  • Meleon solitaria (Lessert, 1927) – West, Central, East Africa
  • Meleon tsaratanana Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2780. Retrieved 2019-07-19. 
  2. Wanless, F. R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 46: 135–205. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.15964. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/15964. 

External links

  • Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)

Wikidata ☰ Q1732197 entry




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