Laetesia

Laetesia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1908.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species, found in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vanuatu:^[1]

• Laetesia amoena Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia asiatica Millidge, 1995 – Thailand
• Laetesia aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
• Laetesia bellissima Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia chathami Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia distincta Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia egregia Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Laetesia forsteri Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Laetesia germana Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia intermedia Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
• Laetesia leo van Helsdingen, 1972 – Australia (South Australia)
• Laetesia minor Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia mollita Simon, 1908 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Laetesia nornalupiensis Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Laetesia oceaniae (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
• Laetesia olvidada Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
• Laetesia paragermana Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
• Laetesia peramoena (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
• Laetesia prominens Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
• Laetesia pseudamoena Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
• Laetesia pulcherrima Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
• Laetesia raveni Hormiga & Scharff, 2014 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Laetesia trispathulata (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
• Laetesia weburdi (Urquhart, 1890) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Laetesia woomeraensis Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (South Australia)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References