| Meleon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Spartaeinae |
| Genus: | Meleon Wanless, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| M. kenti (Lessert, 1925) | |
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Meleon is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
- 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
References
- ^ "Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- 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. 46: 135–205. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.15964.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)
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