Meleon

Meleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Meleon
Wanless, 1984[1]
Type species
M. kenti
(Lessert, 1925)
Species

8, see text

Meleon is an African genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.[2]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes eight species:[1]

  • Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Uganda
  • Meleon insulanus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Madagascar
  • Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925) – Angola, Southern Africa (type species)
  • 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

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
  2. ^ 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.


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