''Mesiotelus'' is a genus of spiders in the family
Liocranidae
Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...
. It was first described in 1897 by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
.
Species
it contains sixteen species:
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Mesiotelus caucasicus''
Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran
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Mesiotelus cyprius''
Kulczyński, 1908 – Crete, Cyprus
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Mesiotelus deltshevi''
Naumova, 2020 – Albania
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Mesiotelus grancanariensis''
Wunderlich, 1992 – Portugal, Canary Is., Madeira
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Mesiotelus kulczynskii''
Charitonov, 1946 – Central Asia
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Mesiotelus libanicus''
(Simon
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, 1878) – Lebanon
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Mesiotelus lubricus''
(Simon, 1880) – China
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Mesiotelus maderianus''
Kulczyński, 1899 – Madeira
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Mesiotelus mauritanicus''
Simon, 1909 – Mediterranean
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Mesiotelus patricki''
Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
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Mesiotelus pococki''
Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
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Mesiotelus scopensis''
Drensky, 1935 – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iran
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Mesiotelus tenellus''
( Thorell, 1875) – Italy
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Mesiotelus tenuissimus''
( L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, North Africa, Turkmenistan
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Mesiotelus viridis''
(L. Koch, 1867) – Greece (incl. Crete)
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Mesiotelus zonsteini''
Mikhailov, 1986 – Central Asia
References
Liocranidae
Liocranidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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