Meta (spider)

Meta
Meta sp. with eggsac
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Meta C. L. Koch, 1836
Species
See text.
Diversity
34 species

Meta is a spider genus that occurs worldwide. They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, and some are known as "cave orbweavers".

Species

• Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 (India)
• Meta barreti Kulczyński, 1899 (Madeira)
• Meta baywanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 (Philippines)
• Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 (Myanmar)
• Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 (Europe to Georgia, North Africa)
• Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 (USA)
• Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938 (Congo)
• Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 (Japan)
• Meta longipalpis Pavesi, 1883 (Ethiopia)
• Meta maculata (Blackwall, 1865) (Cape Verde Is.)
• Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 (Russia, Korea)
• Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) (Europe to Korea)
• Meta merianopsis Tullgren, 1910 (East Africa)
• Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 (East Africa)
• Meta minima Denis, 1953 (Canary Is.)
• Meta mixta O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 (Yarkand)
• Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 (Queensland)
• Meta montana Hogg, 1919 (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 reticuloides Yaginuma, 1958 (Korea, Japan)
• 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 tiniktirika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 (Philippines)
• Meta trivittata Keyserling, 1887 (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 (New South Wales)
• Meta vacillans Butler, 1876 (Rodriguez)
• Meta villiersi Denis, 1955 (Guinea)