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| Meta sp. with eggsac | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Meta C. L. Koch, 1836[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. menardi (Latreille, 1804) | |
| Species | |
| 23, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1836.[3] They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"
Species
As of October 2019 it contains twenty-three 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 japonica Tanikawa, 1993 – Japan
- 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 rufolineata (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
- Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
- Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
- Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
- Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
- Meta trivittata Keyserling, 1887 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 – Australia (New South Wales)
Synonyms
- 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
- ^ a b c d e "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1836". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1836). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg. pp. 73–105.
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