- Meleon
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Meleon Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Salticidae Subfamily: Spartaeinae Genus: Meleon
Wanless, 1984Type species Portia kenti
Lessert, 1925Species see text
Diversity 8 species Meleon is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Species
- Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) — Guinea, Ivory Coast
- Meleon insulanus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 — Madagascar
- Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925) — Angola, Southern Africa
- Meleon madagascarensis (Wanless, 1978) — Madagascar
- Meleon raharizonina Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 — Madagascar
- Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) — Madagascar
- Meleon solitaria (Lessert, 1927) — Central, East Africa
- Meleon tsaratanana Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 — Madagascar
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)
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