Methesis

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Methesis | authority = Simon, 1896<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''M. semirufa'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1896 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | M. brevitarsa|<small>Caporiacco, 1954</small> – French Guiana | M. semirufa|<small>Simon, 1896</small> – Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia}} }}

'''''Methesis''''' is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1896.<ref name=Simo1896>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1896| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Clubionidae.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=400–422| volume=40| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.2026| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/2026}}</ref> Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to Corinnidae in 1969.<ref name=Reis1969>{{cite journal| last=Reiskind| first=J.| year=1969| title=The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=138| page=166}}</ref> {{as of|2019|04}} it contains only two species.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Methesis Simon, 1896| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-21| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/560| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Corinnidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon