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Telema

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Description

Telema is a genus of long-legged cave spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1882. Four species have been transferred to Pinelema: T. cordata, T. liangxi, T. strentarsi, and T. zhewang.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telema, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2142705	https://www.gbif.org/species/2142705
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	257496	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=257496

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Telemidae : Telema

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
-	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
-	Prosomapoda	Lamsdell 2013
class	Xiphosura
order	Xiphosurida	Latreille 1802
-	Planaterga	Lamsdell 2013
-	Dekatriata	Lamsdell 2013
-	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
-	Pantetrapulmonata	Shultz 2007
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
-	Serikodiastida	Garwood and Dunlop 2014
order	Araneae	Clerck 1757
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902
superfamily	Leptonetoidea	Simon 1890
family	Telemidae	Fage 1913
genus	Telema	Simon 1882

Scientific Name

Telema Simon, 1882

Name Published In

Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Telema	genus	belongs to Telemidae	stated with evidence	Dunlop et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Arachnida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arachnida)

Vision

limited (based on Xiphosurida)

Diet

carnivore (based on Xiphosura)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Arachnida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Dunlop, D. Penney, and D. Jekel. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telema

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Telema acicularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema adunca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema anguina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema auricoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema bella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema bifida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema biyunensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema breviseta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema circularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema claviformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema conglobare species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema cordata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema cucphongensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema cucurbitina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema dengi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema dongbei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema exiloculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema fabata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema feilong species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema grandidens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema guihua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema malaysiaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema mayana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema mikrosphaira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema moritzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	38.0 Ma Eocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Telema nipponica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema oculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema pedati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema renalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema spina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema spinafemora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema spirae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema tenella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema tortutheca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema vesiculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema wunderlichi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema yashanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Telema zonaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Telema Simon
2013	Telema Dunlop et al.

References

Dunlop J. A., Penney D., et al (2013) A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Levi, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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