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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 |
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| M. longissimus Simon, 1893 | |
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Mecolaesthus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Species
As of March 2023 it contains forty species, found in South America, Dominica, on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guadeloupe:
- 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
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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