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

Meleon
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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[1]
Type species
M. kenti
(Lessert, 1925)
Species

8, see text

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found only in Africa:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Meleon Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  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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