Mesiotelus

Mesiotelus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Liocranidae
Genus:	Mesiotelus Simon, 1897
Type species
Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866)
Species
16, see text

Mesiotelus is a genus of spiders in the family Liocranidae. It was first described in 1897 by Eugène Simon.

Species

As of May 2022^[update] it contains sixteen species:

• 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