# Telema

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Genus of spiders

Telema Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Telema tenella Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Telemidae Genus: Telema Simon, 1882[1] Type species T. tenella Simon, 1882 Species 6, see text

***Telema*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [long-legged cave spiders](/source/Telemidae) that was first described by [Eugène Louis Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon) in 1882.[2]

## Species

As of February 2022[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema&action=edit) it contains six species, most found in Asia, except for *T. tenella*, found in Europe, and *T. mayana*, found in [Guatemala](/source/Guatemala):[1]

- *[Telema auricoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema_auricoma&action=edit&redlink=1)* Lin & [Li](/source/Shuqiang_Li), 2010 – [China](/source/China)

- *[Telema guihua](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema_guihua&action=edit&redlink=1)* Lin & Li, 2010 – China

- *[Telema mayana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema_mayana&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._Gertsch), 1973 – [Guatemala](/source/Guatemala)

- *[Telema nipponica](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema_nipponica&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Yaginuma, 1972) – [Japan](/source/Japan)

- *[Telema tenella](/source/Telema_tenella)* Simon, 1882 ([type](/source/Type_species)) – [Spain](/source/Spain), [France](/source/France)

- *[Telema wunderlichi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telema_wunderlichi&action=edit&redlink=1)* Song & Zhu, 1994 – China

## See also

- *[Pinelema](/source/Pinelema)*

- *[Usofila](/source/Usofila)*

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-1) ["Gen. Telema Simon, 1882"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3227). *World Spider Catalog Version 23.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436%2F2). Retrieved 13 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Simo1882_2-0)** [Simon, E.](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon) (1882). "Etudes Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae". *Annales de la Société Entomologique de France*. **2** (6): 201–240.

Taxon identifiers Telema Wikidata: Q1849039 Wikispecies: Telema ADW: Telema BioLib: 231934 CoL: 63VB4 EoL: 111654 Fauna Europaea: 353065 Fauna Europaea (new): 3dd08e35-b77b-4ee6-810d-737f3621a507 GBIF: 2142705 iNaturalist: 211278 IRMNG: 1309636 ITIS: 849501 NCBI: 571559 Open Tree of Life: 3541860 Paleobiology Database: 257496 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00353

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