''Meleon'' is a
genus
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of
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
*''
Meleon guineensis''
(Berland Berland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bjørn Berland (born 1977), Norwegian footballer
*Eliezer Berland (born 1937), Israeli Breslov rabbi
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*Gary Berland (1950–1988), Americ ...
& Millot, 1941) –
Guinea
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, Ivory Coast,
Congo
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*''
Meleon insulanus''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 –
Madagascar
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*''
Meleon kenti
''Meleon'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
*'' Meleon guineensis'' (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Congo
*'' Meleon insul ...
''
(Lessert, 1925) (
type) –
Angola
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, Southern Africa
*''
Meleon madagascarensis
''Meleon'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
*'' Meleon guineensis'' (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Congo
*'' Meleon insul ...
''
(Wanless, 1978) – Madagascar
*''
Meleon raharizonina''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
*''
Meleon russata''
(Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1900) – Madagascar
*''
Meleon solitaria''
(Lessert, 1927) – West, Central,
East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa:
Due to the historical ...
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Meleon tsaratanana
''Meleon'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
*'' Meleon guineensis'' (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Congo
*'' Meleon insul ...
''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
References
External links
* Salticidae.org
Diagnostic drawingsof all species (with photograph of ''M. solitaria'')
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Africa
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