Meotipa

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Meotipa
Scientific classification e
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Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
M. picturata
Simon, 1895
Species

14, see text

Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2]

Species[edit]

As of May 2020 it contains fourteen species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. 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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