Meleon

Meleon
Scientific classification
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Animalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Arthropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Chelicerata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Arachnida
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Araneae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Araneomorphae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Salticidae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Spartaeinae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	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]

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

• Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Congo
• Meleon insulanus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
• 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

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

Wikidata ☰ Q1732197 entry

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