type Telema tenella Simon, 1882; gender feminine

N.B.: Usofila Keyserling, 1891 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00355] apparently considered a junior synonym of Telema by Roth, 1982: D-2 and Roth, 1985: 10, but not followed by subsequent authors.

Transferred to other genera:
Telema acicularis Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Sundalema
Telema adunca Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema anguina Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Sundalema
Telema bella Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema bifida Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema biyunensis Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema breviseta Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema circularis Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema claviformis Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema conglobare Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema cordata Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema cucphongensis Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 -- see Pinelema
Telema cucurbitina Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema dengi Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema dongbei Wang & Ran, 1998 -- see Pinelema
Telema exiloculata Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 -- see Pinelema
Telema fabata Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Telemofila
Telema feilong Chen & Zhu, 2009 -- see Pinelema
Telema grandidens Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema liangxi Zhu & Chen, 2002 -- see Pinelema
Telema malaysiaensis Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Telemofila
Telema mikrosphaira Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema oculata Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema pedati Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema renalis Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema spina Tong & Li, 2008 -- see Pinelema
Telema spinafemora Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema spirae Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema strentarsi Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema tortutheca Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema vesiculata Lin & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema yashanensis Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema
Telema zhewang Chen & Zhu, 2009 -- see Pinelema
Telema zonaria Wang & Li, 2010 -- see Pinelema

Telema auricoma Lin & Li, 2010b: 3, f. 1A-J (Df).

Telema coreana Oh, Choi & Lee, 2023: 3, f. 1C-D, 2A-D, 3A-F, 4A-C (Dmf).

Telema guihua Lin & Li, 2010b: 12, f. 6A-F, 7A-E (Dmf).

Telema mayana Gertsch, 1973a: 154 (Df).

Merizocera nipponica Yaginuma, 1972e: 286, f. 10-14 (Df).
Telema nipponica Yaginuma, 1973b: 22, f. 1-6 (Tf from Merizocera, Dm).
Telema nipponica Yaginuma, 1974b: 14, f. 4-6 (m).
Telema nipponica Shinkai, 1977: 322, f. 1-3 (m).
Telema nipponica Yaginuma, 1986a: 20, f. 13.3 (m).
Telema nipponica Chikuni, 1989b: 26, f. 1 (m).
Telema nipponica Ono, 2009a: 121, f. 1-6 (mf).

Telema tenella Simon, 1882c: 205 (Dmf).
Telema tenella Simon, 1893a: 284, f. 240, 244 (m).
Telema tenella Fage, 1913: 510, pl. 48-49, f. 1-21 (mf).
Telema tenella Berland, 1932b: 339, f. 484-485 (m).
Telema tenella Yaginuma, 1974b: 15, f. 1 (m).
Telema tenella Emerit, 1982a: 45, f. pl. 1, f. 1-6; f. 1-2.
Telema tenella Emerit & Juberthie, 1983: 407, pl. 1A-C.
Telema tenella Emerit, 1984: 1, f. A-B.
Telema tenella Emerit, 1986: 91, f. 2C.
Telema tenella Le Peru, 2011: 142, f. 176 (mf).
Telema tenella Wang, Ribera & Li, 2012: 12, f. 1, 2A-D, 3A-D, 4A-E, 5A-D (mf).

Telema wunderlichi Song & Zhu, 1994: 36, f. 1A-D (Dmf).
Telema wunderlichi Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 51, f. 11G, 22A-C (mf).
Telema wunderlichi Yin et al., 2012: 161, f. 29a-d (mf).