The species of this genus are found in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe and Guatemala.
As of January 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:
Telema acicularis Wang & Li, 2010 - Thailand
Telema adunca Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema anguina Wang & Li, 2010 - Thailand
Telema auricoma Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema bella Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema bifida Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema biyunensis Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema breviseta Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema circularis Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema claviformis Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema conglobare Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema cordata Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema cucphongensis Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 - Vietnam
Telema cucurbitina Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema dengi Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema dongbei Wang & Ran, 1998 - China
Telema exiloculata Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 - Vietnam
Telema fabata Wang & Li, 2010 - Singapore
Telema feilong Chen & Zhu, 2009 - China
Telema grandidens Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema guihua Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema liangxi Zhu & Chen, 2002 - China
Telema malaysiaensis Wang & Li, 2010 - Borneo
Telema mayana Gertsch, 1973 - Guatemala
Telema mikrosphaira Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema nipponica Yaginuma, 1972 - Japan
Telema oculata Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema pedati Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema renalis Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema spina Tong & Li, 2008 - China
Telema spinafemora Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema spirae Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema strentarsi Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema tenella Simon, 1882 - Spain, France
Telema tortutheca Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema vesiculata Lin & Li, 2010 - China
Telema wunderlichi Song & Zhu, 1994 - China
Telema yashanensis Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Telema zhewang Chen & Zhu, 2009 - China
Telema zonaria Wang & Li, 2010 - China
Simon, 1882 : Études Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, sér. 6, vol. 2, p. 201-240
