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Genus: Meleon Wanless, 1984 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034518

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Described:

Distribution: Angola, Southern Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa m (formerly in Durban?) - (Wijesinghe, 1994)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f of Portia cazomboensis - (Wijesinghe, 1994)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1f (9925, ex 1957 part) of Portia cazomboensis - (Wijesinghe, 1994)
Holotype: Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa m - (Lessert, 1925b)
Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027883; not mentioned by Lessert, 1925b or Wijesinghe, 1994) -

Taxonomic References

Portia kenti Lessert, 1925b: 339, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Portia kenti Roewer, 1965: 11, f. 10 (m)

Portia cazomboensis Wanless, 1978f: 90, f. 2A-D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058146]

Portia kenti Wanless, 1978f: 111, f. 14A, C-D, 15A (m)

Portia kenti Wanless in Murphy & Murphy, 1983a: 39 (S of Portia cazomboensis)

Meleon kenti Wanless, 1984a: 187, f. 34C-E, 36E (mf, T from Portia)

References

Lessert, R. de (1925b). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique (suite). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 323-365. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117932 -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. & Murphy, F. (1983a). More about Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6(1): 37-45. -- 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. (1978f). A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 34: 83-124. -- 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

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]

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