Moneta (spider)

Moneta
M. tanikawai, female from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Moneta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871[1]
Type species
M. spinigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
Species
21, see text

Moneta is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.^[2]

As of May 2020^[update] it contains twenty-one species:^[1]

• Moneta australis (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland)
• Moneta baoae Yin, 2012 – China
• Moneta caudifera (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Moneta coercervea (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles
• Moneta conifera (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
• Moneta furva Yin, 2012 – China
• Moneta grandis Simon, 1905 – India
• Moneta hunanica Zhu, 1998 – China
• Moneta longicauda Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Moneta mirabilis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan
• Moneta orientalis Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
• Moneta spinigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 (type) – Africa, Asia
• Moneta spinigeroides (Zhu & Song, 1992) – China
• Moneta subspinigera Zhu, 1998 – China
• Moneta tanikawai (Yoshida, 1991) – Japan
• Moneta triquetra Simon, 1889 – New Caledonia
• Moneta tumida Zhu, 1998 – China
• Moneta tumulicola Zhu, 1998 – China
• Moneta uncinata Zhu, 1998 – China
• Moneta variabilis Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
• Moneta yoshimurai (Yoshida, 1983) – Taiwan

In synonymy:

• M. paiki (Seo, 1985) = Moneta caudifera (Dönitz & Strand, 1906)

• List of Theridiidae species

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