| Mesida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Mesida Kulczyński, 19111 |
| Type species | |
| M. humilis Kulczyński, 1911
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Mesida is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1911.2
Species
As of October 2019 it contains thirteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa, Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:1
- Mesida argentiopunctata (Rainbow, 1916) – Australia (Queensland)
- Mesida culta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – India, Sri Lanka
- Mesida gemmea (Hasselt, 1882) – Myanmar to Indonesia (Java), Taiwan
- Mesida grayi Chrysanthus, 1975 – New Guinea
- Mesida humilis Kulczyński, 1911 (type) – New Guinea
- Mesida matinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Mesida mindiptanensis Chrysanthus, 1975 – New Guinea
- Mesida pumila (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sumatra) to New Guinea
- Mesida realensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Mesida thorelli (Blackwall, 1877) – Seychelles, Mayotte
- Mesida wilsoni Chrysanthus, 1975 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
- Mesida yangbi Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
- Mesida yini Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China, Laos
References
References
- "Gen. Mesida Kulczyński, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- Kulczyński, W. (1911), "Spinnen aus Nord-Neu-Guinea", Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903 sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann