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 - ThailandTelema adunca Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema anguina Wang & Li, 2010 - ThailandTelema auricoma Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema bella Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema bifida Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema biyunensis Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema breviseta Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema circularis Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema claviformis Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema conglobare Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema cordata Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema cucphongensis Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 - VietnamTelema cucurbitina Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema dengi Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema dongbei Wang & Ran, 1998 - ChinaTelema exiloculata Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 - VietnamTelema fabata Wang & Li, 2010 - SingaporeTelema feilong Chen & Zhu, 2009 - ChinaTelema grandidens Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema guihua Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema liangxi Zhu & Chen, 2002 - ChinaTelema malaysiaensis Wang & Li, 2010 - BorneoTelema mayana Gertsch, 1973 - GuatemalaTelema mikrosphaira Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema nipponica Yaginuma, 1972 - JapanTelema oculata Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema pedati Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema renalis Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema spina Tong & Li, 2008 - ChinaTelema spinafemora Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema spirae Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema strentarsi Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema tenella Simon, 1882 - Spain, FranceTelema tortutheca Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema vesiculata Lin & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema wunderlichi Song & Zhu, 1994 - ChinaTelema yashanensis Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaTelema zhewang Chen & Zhu, 2009 - ChinaTelema zonaria Wang & Li, 2010 - ChinaSimon, 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
