Mecolaesthus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. longissimus Simon, 1893
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| Species | |
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40, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
editAs of March 2023[update] it contains forty species, found in South America, Dominica, on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guadeloupe:[1]
- Mecolaesthus alegria Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus anzu Huber, 2023 – Ecuador
- Mecolaesthus arepa Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus arima Huber, 2000 – Trinidad
- Mecolaesthus azulita Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus bienmesabe Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus cachapa Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus chicha Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus chuwitayo Huber, 2023 – Ecuador
- Mecolaesthus cordiformis (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus cornutus Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus discrepantis (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus fallax Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus grandis (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus graphorn Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus guasacaca Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus hoti Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus lechosa Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus lemniscatus (Simon, 1894) – St. Vincent
- Mecolaesthus limon Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus longipes Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus longissimus Simon, 1893 (type) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus misahualli Huber, 2023 – Ecuador
- Mecolaesthus mucuy Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus multidenticulatus (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus nigrifrons (Simon, 1894) – St. Vincent
- Mecolaesthus niquitanus (González-Sponga, 2011) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus parchita Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus peckorum Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus piedras Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus puntiagudus (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus pusillus Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus putumayo Huber, 2000 – Colombia
- Mecolaesthus quasimodo Huber, 2023 – Ecuador
- Mecolaesthus tabay Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus taino Huber, 2000 – Guadeloupe, Dominica
- Mecolaesthus trampa Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
- Mecolaesthus yawaperi Huber, 2000 – Brazil
- Mecolaesthus yerbatero Huber, 2020 – Venezuela
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2023). "Gen. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Huber, B. A.; Colmenares, P. A.; Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae". Zootaxa. 3847 (3): 417. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5. hdl:11336/19098. PMID 25112347.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Villarreal, O. (2020). "On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 718: 1–317. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101.
- ^ Simon, E. (1893). "Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 62: 299–330.
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