Telema
| Telema Temporal range:
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| Telema tenella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Telemidae |
| Genus: | Simon, 1882[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. tenella Simon, 1882
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6, see text | |
Telema is a genus of long-legged cave spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1882.[2]
Species
As of February 2022 it contains six species, most found in Asia, except for T. tenella, found in Europe, and T. mayana, found in Guatemala:[1]
- Telema auricoma Lin & Li, 2010 – China
- Telema guihua Lin & Li, 2010 – China
- Telema mayana Gertsch, 1973 – Guatemala
- Telema nipponica (Yaginuma, 1972) – Japan
- Telema tenella Simon, 1882 (type) – Spain, France
- Telema wunderlichi Song & Zhu, 1994 – China
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Telema Simon, 1882". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ Simon, E. (1882). "Etudes Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 2 (6): 201–240.