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<mods:title>New data on the jumping spiders of the subfamily Spartaeinae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Azarkina, Galina N.</mods:namePart>
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Genus
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<emphasis box="[574,658,1252,1279]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">Meleon</emphasis>
Wanless,
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This Afrotropical genus currently consists of eight described species (Platnick
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), occurring from Guinea in the west to Madagascar in the east.
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The composition of
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<emphasis box="[451,537,1358,1386]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">Meleon</emphasis>
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requires further study, as the genus seems to be a paraphyletic taxon. According to Wijesinghe (
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),
<taxonomicName box="[795,880,1390,1418]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="170" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[795,880,1390,1418]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">Meleon</emphasis>
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should consist of only three species:
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<emphasis box="[346,506,1424,1450]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. guineensis</emphasis>
(Berland &amp; Millot,
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="Lessert, 1927" authorityName="Lessert" authorityYear="1927" box="[822,1141,1422,1450]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="170" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solitaria">
<emphasis box="[822,959,1422,1450]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. solitaria</emphasis>
(Lessert,
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)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[232,327,1454,1482]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. kenti</emphasis>
(Lessert,
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)
</taxonomicName>
; the last is the
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species.
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<emphasis box="[853,1091,1454,1482]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. madagascarensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[181,306,1488,1514]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. russata</emphasis>
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, as stated by Wijesinghe (
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), belong elsewhere. The same seems to hold true for two new
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<emphasis box="[439,525,1518,1546]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">Meleon</emphasis>
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species recently described by Logunov and Azarkina (
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), viz.
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<emphasis box="[323,462,1550,1578]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. insularis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[518,707,1550,1578]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. raharisonina</emphasis>
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, as both are closely related to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="170" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="madagascarensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">M. madagascarensis</emphasis>
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. The problem of the taxonomic status and composition of
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<emphasis box="[1028,1114,1582,1610]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">Meleon</emphasis>
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is outside the scope of the present work and will be considered properly elsewhere by one of us (
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).
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