{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Prepotelus | image = | image_caption = | authority = Simon, 1898<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''P. lanceolatus'' <small>Simon, 1898</small> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Prepotelus''''' is a genus of Mauritian crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.<ref name=Simo1898>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIV. Arachnides recueillis par M. Ch. Alluaud à l'île Maurice en 1896.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=276–281| volume=66}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains four species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Prepotelus Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-04-02| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3702}}</ref> *''Prepotelus curtus'' <small>Ledoux, 2004</small> — Réunion *''Prepotelus lanceolatus'' <small>Simon, 1898</small> — Mauritius, Réunion *''Prepotelus limbatus'' <small>(Simon, 1898)</small> — Mauritius *''Prepotelus pectinitarsis'' <small>(Simon, 1898)</small> — Mauritius
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Thomisidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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