Meta (spider)

Genus of spiders

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Meta (disambiguation).

Meta

Temporal range:  Palaeogene– Present

PreꞒ

Meta sp. with eggsac
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Tetragnathidae
Genus:  | Meta
C. L. Koch, 1835[1]
Type species
M. menardi

(Latreille, 1804)

Species

26, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933[2]

Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835.[3] They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"

## Species

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As of March 2021[update] it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:[1]

* Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 – India
* Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
* Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 – Europe, Georgia, North Africa
* Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 – USA
* Meta hamata Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
* Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 – Japan
* Meta longlingensis Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
* Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 – Russia (Far East), Korea
* Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Iran
* Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
* Meta mixta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
* Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 – Australia (Queensland)
* Meta montana Hogg, 1919 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
* Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 – China
* Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 – China, Japan
* Meta obscura Kulczyński, 1899 – Canary Is., Madeira
* Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) – USA, Canada
* Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983 – China
* Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
* Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
* Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 – India
* Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
* Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
* Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 – Australia (New South Wales)
* Meta yani >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China
* Meta tangi >Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 — China

### Synonyms

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Synonyms include:[1]

* Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
* Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922

### Dubious names

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Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:[1]

* Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920

## See also

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* List of Tetragnathidae species

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ Koch, C. L. (1835). "Arachniden". In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.). Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet. pp. 127–134\. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007. LCCN ca11002214. OCLC 4195853.

Taxon identifiers

Meta|

* Wikidata: Q140566
* Wikispecies: Meta
* ADW: Meta
* AFD: Meta
* BioLib: 1539
* BOLD: 83234
* BugGuide: 46599
* CoL: 5Q4W
* EoL: 112725
* Fauna Europaea: 353067
* Fauna Europaea (new): f8029140-27e9-4402-8e88-5127e7406b09
* GBIF: 2151377
* iNaturalist: 60706
* IRMNG: 1309963
* ITIS: 848778
* NBN: NHMSYS0020706449
* NCBI: 94025
* NZOR: 223f32e1-ecc7-4d23-a2fd-72dcf25b1921
* Open Tree of Life: 1043570
* Paleobiology Database: 268712
* WoRMS: 512222
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01386

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