Mesiotelus Explained

Mesiotelus is a genus of spiders in the family Liocranidae. It was first described in 1897 by Eugène Simon.^[1]

Species

it contains sixteen species:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, Eugène . Histoire naturelle des araignées . Roret . 1897 . 2 . 2 . 1–192 . 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
2. 2022 . Gen. Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 . 23 May 2022 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2.