{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}} | taxon = Telema | image = Telema_tenella.jpg | image_caption = ''Telema tenella'' | authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1882<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''[[Telema tenella|T. tenella]]'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1882 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, [[#Species|see text]] }} '''''Telema''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Telemidae|long-legged cave spiders]] that was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1882.<ref name=Simo1882>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1882| title=Etudes Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=201–240| volume=2| issue=6| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref>
==Species== {{As of|2022|2}} it contains six species, most found in Asia, except for ''T. tenella'', found in Europe, and ''T. mayana'', found in [[Guatemala]]:<ref name="NMBE">{{cite journal|year=2022|title=Gen. Telema Simon, 1882|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3227|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|doi=10.24436/2|access-date=13 February 2022|website=World Spider Catalog Version 23.0}}</ref> *''[[Telema auricoma]]'' <small>Lin & [[Shuqiang Li|Li]], 2010</small> – [[China]] *''[[Telema guihua]]'' <small>Lin & Li, 2010</small> – China *''[[Telema mayana]]'' <small>[[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]], 1973</small> – [[Guatemala]] *''[[Telema nipponica]]'' <small>(Yaginuma, 1972)</small> – [[Japan]] *''[[Telema tenella]]'' <small>Simon, 1882</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – [[Spain]], [[France]] *''[[Telema wunderlichi]]'' <small>Song & Zhu, 1994</small> – China
==See also== *''[[Pinelema]]'' *''[[Usofila]]''
==References== {{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Telemidae genera]] [[Category:Spiders of Asia]] [[Category:Spiders of Central America]] [[Category:Telemidae]] [[Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon]]
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