Meleon Explained

Meleon is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found only in Africa:^[2]

• 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

External links

• Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)

Notes and References

1. 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. 135–205. 46. 10.5962/bhl.part.15964.
2. Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-19. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.