Mesiotelus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Liocranidae
Genus: Mesiotelus
Simon, 1897[1]
Type species
Mesiotelus tenuissimus
(L. Koch, 1866)
Species

16, see text

Mesiotelus is a genus of spiders in the family Liocranidae. It was first described in 1897 by Eugène Simon.[2]

Species

As of May 2022 it contains sixteen species:[1]

  • Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran
  • Mesiotelus cyprius Kulczyński, 1908 – Crete, Cyprus
  • Mesiotelus deltshevi Naumova, 2020 – Albania
  • Mesiotelus grancanariensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Portugal, Canary Is., Madeira
  • Mesiotelus kulczynskii Charitonov, 1946 – Central Asia
  • Mesiotelus libanicus (Simon, 1878) – Lebanon
  • Mesiotelus lubricus (Simon, 1880) – China
  • Mesiotelus maderianus Kulczyński, 1899 – Madeira
  • Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1909 – Mediterranean
  • Mesiotelus patricki Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
  • Mesiotelus pococki Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Mesiotelus scopensis Drensky, 1935 – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iran
  • Mesiotelus tenellus (Thorell, 1875) – Italy
  • Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, North Africa, Turkmenistan
  • Mesiotelus viridis (L. Koch, 1867) – Greece (incl. Crete)
  • Mesiotelus zonsteini Mikhailov, 1986 – Central Asia

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Mesiotelus Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  2. Simon, Eugène (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Vol. 2 (2 ed.). Roret. pp. 1–192. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.


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