Mecolaesthus

Mecolaesthus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[3]

Mecolaesthus
Scientific classification
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
Species
19, see text
Synonyms[1]
Carbonaria González-Sponga, 2009[2] Maimire González-Sponga, 2009[2] Moraia González-Sponga, 2011[2] Nasuta González-Sponga, 2009[2] Sanluisi González-Sponga, 2003[2] Venezuela Koçak & Kemal, 2008[2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nineteen species, found in South America, Dominica, on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guadeloupe:[1]

• Mecolaesthus arima Huber, 2000 – Trinidad
• Mecolaesthus azulita Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus cordiformis (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus cornutus Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus grandis (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus hoti Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus lemniscatus (Simon, 1894) – St. Vincent
• Mecolaesthus longissimus Simon, 1893 (type) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus mucuy Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus multidenticulatus (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus nigrifrons (Simon, 1894) – St. Vincent
• Mecolaesthus niquitanus (González-Sponga, 2011) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus peckorum Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus puntiagudus (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus putumayo Huber, 2000 – Colombia
• Mecolaesthus tabay Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus taino Huber, 2000 – Guadeloupe, Dominica
• Mecolaesthus tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
• Mecolaesthus yawaperi Huber, 2000 – Brazil

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. "Gen. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. 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</a>.
3. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1, . <a href='https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51973'>doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973</a>. pp. 257–488.