https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Meta_%28spider%29 Meta (spider) - Revision history 2026-09-06T22:36:28Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta_(spider)&diff=165792&oldid=prev imported>Loopy30: /* Species */ update spp. list 2021-03-07T00:44:23Z <p><span class="autocomment">Species: </span> update spp. list</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{about|a genus of spiders|other uses|Meta (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{Short description| Genus of spiders}}<br /> {{Automatic taxobox<br /> | fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}}<br /> | taxon = Meta<br /> | image = Meta_sp._with_eggsac_(Marshal_Hedin).jpg<br /> | image_caption = &#039;&#039;Meta&#039;&#039; sp. with eggsac<br /> | authority = [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|C. L. Koch]], 1836&lt;ref name=NMBE /&gt;<br /> | type_species = &#039;&#039;[[Meta menardi|M. menardi]]&#039;&#039;<br /> | type_species_authority = ([[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1804)<br /> | subdivision_ranks = Species<br /> | subdivision = 26, [[#Species|see text]]<br /> | synonyms = <br /> *&#039;&#039;Auchicybaeus&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]], 1933&lt;/small&gt;&lt;ref name=Leht1967&gt;{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=217}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> | synonyms_ref = &lt;ref name=NMBE /&gt;<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Meta&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[genus]] of [[Tetragnathidae|long-jawed orb-weavers]] that was first described by [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch]] in 1836.&lt;ref name=Koch1836&gt;{{cite book| last=Koch| first=C. L.| year=1836| title=Die Arachniden| publisher=C. H. Zeh&#039;sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg| pages=73–105| author-link=Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch}}&lt;/ref&gt; They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name &quot;cave orbweavers&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Species==<br /> {{as of|2021|03}} it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:&lt;ref name=NMBE&gt;{{cite web| title=Gen. &#039;&#039;Meta&#039;&#039; C. L. Koch, 1836| website=World Spider Catalog Version 22.0| accessdate=2021-03-06| year=2021| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3290| doi=10.24436/2}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta abdomenalis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Patel &amp; Reddy, 1993&lt;/small&gt; – India<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta birmanica]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]], 1898&lt;/small&gt; – Myanmar<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta bourneti]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1922&lt;/small&gt; – Europe, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], North Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta dolloff]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Herbert Walter Levi|Levi]], 1980&lt;/small&gt; – USA<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta hamata]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang &amp; Peng, 2020&lt;/small&gt; — China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta japonica]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Tanikawa, 1993&lt;/small&gt; – Japan<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta longlingensis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang &amp; Peng, 2020&lt;/small&gt; — China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta manchurica]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Marusik &amp; Koponen, 1992&lt;/small&gt; – Russia (Far East), Korea<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta menardi]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Latreille, 1804)&lt;/small&gt; ([[Type_species|type]]) – Europe, Turkey, Iran<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta meruensis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Albert Tullgren|Tullgren]], 1910&lt;/small&gt; – Tanzania<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta mixta]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1885&lt;/small&gt; – China ([[Yarkant County|Yarkand]])<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta monogrammata]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Arthur Gardiner Butler|Butler]], 1876&lt;/small&gt; – Australia ([[Queensland]])<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta montana]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Henry Roughton Hogg|Hogg]], 1919&lt;/small&gt; – Indonesia ([[Sumatra]])<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta nebulosa]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Schenkel, 1936&lt;/small&gt; – China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta nigridorsalis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Tanikawa, 1994&lt;/small&gt; – China, Japan<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta obscura]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Władysław Kulczyński|Kulczyński]], 1899&lt;/small&gt; – Canary Is., Madeira<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta ovalis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]], 1933)&lt;/small&gt; – USA, Canada<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta qianshanensis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Zhu &amp; Zhu, 1983&lt;/small&gt; – China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta serrana]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Franganillo, 1930&lt;/small&gt; – Cuba<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta shenae]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Zhu, Song &amp; Zhang, 2003&lt;/small&gt; – China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta simlaensis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[B. K. Tikader|Tikader]], 1982&lt;/small&gt; – India<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta stridulans]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Wunderlich, 1987&lt;/small&gt; – Madeira<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta tangi]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;&gt;Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang &amp; Peng, 2020&lt;/small&gt; — China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta turbatrix]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Keyserling, 1887&lt;/small&gt; – Australia (New South Wales)<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta yani]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;&gt;Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang &amp; Peng, 2020&lt;/small&gt; — China<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Meta tangi]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;&gt;Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang &amp; Peng, 2020&lt;/small&gt; — China<br /> <br /> ===Synonyms===<br /> [[Synonym (taxonomy)|Synonyms]] include:&lt;ref name=NMBE/&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;Meta americana&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Marusik &amp; Koponen, 1992&lt;/small&gt; = &#039;&#039;Meta ovalis&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Gertsch, 1933)&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;Meta milleri&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Kratochvíl, 1942&lt;/small&gt; = &#039;&#039;Meta bourneti&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Simon, 1922&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Dubious names===<br /> &lt;!-- There are redirects to this section title, so fix if you change it. --&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;[[Nomen dubium|Nomina dubia]]&#039;&#039; (dubious names) include:&lt;ref name=NMBE/&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;Meta nigra&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Franganillo, 1920&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[List of Tetragnathidae species]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> {{Taxonbar| from=Q140566}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]<br /> [[Category:Cosmopolitan spiders]]<br /> [[Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch]]<br /> [[Category:Tetragnathidae]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Tetragnathidae-stub}}</div> imported>Loopy30