Meta (spider)

Genus of spiders

Meta
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Meta
C. L. Koch, 1835[1]
Type species
M. menardi
(Latreille, 1804)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms[1]

Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835.[3] They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"

Species

As of March 2021[update] it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:[1]

  • Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 – India
  • Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
  • Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 – Europe, Georgia, North Africa
  • Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 – USA
  • Meta hamata Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
  • Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 – Japan
  • Meta longlingensis Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
  • Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 – Russia (Far East), Korea
  • Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Iran
  • Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  • Meta mixta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
  • Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Meta montana Hogg, 1919 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 – China
  • Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 – China, Japan
  • Meta obscura Kulczyński, 1899 – Canary Is., Madeira
  • Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) – USA, Canada
  • Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983 – China
  • Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
  • Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
  • Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
  • Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
  • Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
  • Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Meta yani >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
  • Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China

Synonyms

Synonyms include:[1]

  • Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
  • Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922

Dubious names

Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:[1]

  • Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 217.
  3. ^ Koch, C. L. (1835). "Arachniden". In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.). Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet. pp. 127–134. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007. LCCN ca11002214. OCLC 4195853.
Taxon identifiers
Meta


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