Meleon guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1941)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034517

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Uganda


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Wijesinghe, 1994)
Taxonomic References
Linus guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941: 399, f. 92 (Df) Original description
Portia guineensis Roewer, 1965: 14, f. 12 (f, T from Linus)
Meleon solitaria Wanless, 1984a: 187, f. 26A-G (m; misidentified per Wijesinghe, 1994: 59)
Meleon guineensis Wijesinghe, 1994: 59, f. 1-3, 7 (f, removed from S of M. solitaria, contra Wanless, 1978f: 91, sub Portia)
Meleon guineensis Azarkina & Logunov, 2010: 171, f. 28-36, 38, 39 (mf)
Meleon guineensis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 65, f. 43A-C (mf)
References

Azarkina, G. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2010). New data on the jumping spiders of the subfamily Spartaeinae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Africa. African Invertebrates 51(1): 163-182. doi: 10.5733/afin.051.0103 -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984a). 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 (Zool.) 46: 135-205. -- Show included taxa

Wijesinghe, D. P. (1994). On the spider genus Meleon Wanless (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102: 56-61. -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value

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