Meleon

Short description: Genus of spiders

Meleon

Scientific classification
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[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

## 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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