Meleon
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| Meleon | |
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| 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 | |
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Meleon is an African genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.[2]
Species
[edit | edit source]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes eight species:[1]
- Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Uganda
- Meleon insulanus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
- Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925) – Angola, Southern Africa (type species)
- 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
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Citizen science observations for Meleon at iNaturalistLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)
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