Taxon details


Meleon kenti (Lessert, 1925)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034518]
  • Distribution: Angola, Southern Africa
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; m (Wijesinghe, 1994)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f of Portia cazomboensis (Wijesinghe, 1994)
  • Holotype: Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa; m (Lessert, 1925b)
  • Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 1f (9925, ex 1957 part) of Portia cazomboensis (Wijesinghe, 1994)
Taxonomic references
Portia kenti Lessert, 1925b: 339, f. 8 (Dm).
Portia kenti Roewer, 1965: 11, f. 10 (m).
Portia cazomboensis Wanless, 1978f: 90, f. 2A-D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058146].
Portia kenti Wanless, 1978f: 111, f. 14A, C-D, 15A (m).
Portia kenti Wanless, in Murphy & Murphy, 1983a: 39 (S of Portia cazomboensis).
Meleon kenti Wanless, 1984a: 187, f. 34C-E, 36E (mf, T from Portia).
References

Lessert, R. de (1925b). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique (suite). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 323-365. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. & Murphy, F. (1983a). More about Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 37-45. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978f). A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 34: 83-124. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984a). A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 46: 135-205. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

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