Meleon
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Meleon
| type_species = M. kenti
| type_species_authority = (Lessert, 1925)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 8, see text
}}
Meleon is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.{{cite journal| last=Wanless| first=F. R.| year=1984| title=A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera| journal=Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History| pages=135–205| volume=46| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.15964| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/15964}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains eight species, found only in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-19| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2780| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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
References
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External links
- Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/meleon/meleon.htm Diagnostic drawings] of all species (with photograph of M. solitaria)
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