Meta (spider)

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"

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Meta (disambiguation).

Meta Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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]
Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933[2]

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)

In synonymy:

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

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

References

1. "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.
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. (1836). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg. pp. 73–105.

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