Laetesia

Laetesia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1908.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twenty-five species, found in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vanuatu:^[1]

Laetesia amoena Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia asiatica Millidge, 1995 – Thailand
Laetesia aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
Laetesia bellissima Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia chathami Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia distincta Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia egregia Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
Laetesia forsteri Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (New South Wales)
Laetesia germana Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia intermedia Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
Laetesia leo van Helsdingen, 1972 – Australia (South Australia)
Laetesia minor Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia mollita Simon, 1908 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
Laetesia nornalupiensis Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (Western Australia)
Laetesia oceaniae (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
Laetesia olvidada Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
Laetesia paragermana Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
Laetesia peramoena (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
Laetesia prominens Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
Laetesia pseudamoena Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
Laetesia pulcherrima Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
Laetesia raveni Hormiga & Scharff, 2014 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Laetesia trispathulata (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
Laetesia weburdi (Urquhart, 1890) – Australia (New South Wales)
Laetesia woomeraensis Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (South Australia)

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Laetesia Simon, 1908". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
^ Simon, E. (1908), "Araneae. 1re partie", in Michaelsen, Hartmeyer (ed.), Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens

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