title: Laetesia
text: # Laetesia
  
  Laetesia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1908.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species, found in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vanuatu:
  
  * 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)
  