Mesiotelus is a genus of spiders in the family Liocranidae. It was first described in 1897 by Eugène Simon.[2]
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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: | Liocranidae |
| Genus: | Mesiotelus Simon, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866)
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Species
editAs of May 2022[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Mesiotelus caucasicus Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran
- Mesiotelus cyprius Kulczyński, 1908 – Crete, Cyprus
- Mesiotelus deltshevi Naumova, 2020 – Albania
- Mesiotelus grancanariensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Portugal, Canary Is., Madeira
- Mesiotelus kulczynskii Charitonov, 1946 – Central Asia
- Mesiotelus libanicus (Simon, 1878) – Lebanon
- Mesiotelus lubricus (Simon, 1880) – China
- Mesiotelus maderianus Kulczyński, 1899 – Madeira
- Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1909 – Mediterranean
- Mesiotelus patricki Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
- Mesiotelus pococki Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Mesiotelus scopensis Drensky, 1935 – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iran
- Mesiotelus tenellus (Thorell, 1875) – Italy
- Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, North Africa, Turkmenistan
- Mesiotelus viridis (L. Koch, 1867) – Greece (incl. Crete)
- Mesiotelus zonsteini Mikhailov, 1986 – Central Asia
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Mesiotelus Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- ^ Simon, Eugène (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Vol. 2 (2 ed.). Roret. pp. 1–192. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.