Meta (spider)
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Tetragnathidae |
Genus: | Meta C. L. Koch, 1836[1] |
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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)
References
- ^ "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1836". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
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