Meleon
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Meleon | |
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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)
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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
- ^ a b "Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)Error: "Q1732197" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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