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Scientific classification 
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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"
Species[edit | edit source]
As of March 2021[update] it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:[1]
- Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 ā India
- Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 ā Myanmar
- Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 ā Europe, Georgia, North Africa
- Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 ā USA
- Meta hamata Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 ā China
- Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 ā Japan
- Meta longlingensis Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 ā China
- Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 ā Russia (Far East), Korea
- Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) (type) ā Europe, Turkey, Iran
- Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 ā Tanzania
- Meta mixta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 ā China (Yarkand)
- Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 ā Australia (Queensland)
- Meta montana Hogg, 1919 ā Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 ā China
- Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 ā China, Japan
- Meta obscura KulczyÅski, 1899 ā Canary Is., Madeira
- Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) ā USA, Canada
- Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983 ā China
- Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 ā Cuba
- Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 ā China
- Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 ā India
- Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 ā Madeira
- Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 ā China
- Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 ā Australia (New South Wales)
- Meta yani >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 ā China
- Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 ā China
Synonyms[edit | edit source]
- Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
- Meta milleri KratochvĆl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922
Dubious names[edit | edit source]
Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:[1]
- Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1836". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ā 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.
- ā Koch, C. L. (1836). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, NĆ¼rnberg. pp. 73ā105.