Meotipa
Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2]
| Meotipa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Meotipa Simon, 1894[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. picturata Simon, 1895 | |
| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Species
As of May 2020 it contains fourteen species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]
- Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
- Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) – China, Japan, Philippines, India
- Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
- Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 – India
- Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 (type) – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia
- Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Tropical Africa. Introduced to the Americas, Papua New Guinea, China, Korea, Japan, Pacific Is.
- Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 – India
- Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
- Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 – India
- Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 – China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia
In synonymy:
- M. clementinae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
- M. jianglensis (Zhu & Song, 1993) = Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895
- M. mussau Chrysanthus, 1975 = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
See also
References
- "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
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