title: Telema
text: # Telema
  
  Telema is a genus of long-legged cave spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1882.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of February 2022 it contains six species, most found in Asia, except for T. tenella, found in Europe, and T. mayana, found in Guatemala:
  
  * Telema auricoma Lin & Li, 2010 – China
  * Telema guihua Lin & Li, 2010 – China
  * Telema mayana Gertsch, 1973 – Guatemala
  * Telema nipponica (Yaginuma, 1972) – Japan
  * Telema tenella Simon, 1882 (type) – Spain, France
  * Telema wunderlichi Song & Zhu, 1994 – China
  