Laetesia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1908.
Species
it contains twenty-five species, found in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vanuatu:
- Laetesia amoena <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia asiatica <small>Millidge, 1995</small> â Thailand
- Laetesia aucklandensis <small>(Forster, 1964)</small> â New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
- Laetesia bellissima <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia chathami <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia distincta <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia egregia <small>Simon, 1908</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- Laetesia forsteri <small>Wunderlich, 1976</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Laetesia germana <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia intermedia <small>Blest & Vink, 2003</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia leo <small>van Helsdingen, 1972</small> â Australia (South Australia)
- Laetesia minor <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia mollita <small>Simon, 1908</small> (type) â Australia (Western Australia)
- Laetesia nornalupiensis <small>Wunderlich, 1976</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- Laetesia oceaniae <small>(Berland, 1938)</small> â Vanuatu
- Laetesia olvidada <small>Blest & Vink, 2003</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia paragermana <small>Blest & Vink, 2003</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia peramoena <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia prominens <small>Millidge, 1988</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia pseudamoena <small>Blest & Vink, 2003</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia pulcherrima <small>Blest & Vink, 2003</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia raveni <small> & Scharff, 2014</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Laetesia trispathulata <small>(Urquhart, 1886)</small> â New Zealand
- Laetesia weburdi <small>(Urquhart, 1890)</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Laetesia woomeraensis <small>Wunderlich, 1976</small> â Australia (South Australia)
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