Meta (spider)
Encyclopedia
Meta is a spider
genus
that occurs worldwide.
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
that occurs worldwide.
Species
- Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 (India)
- Meta aerea Hogg, 1896 (Northern Territory)
- Meta aurora Simon, 1901 (Argentina)
- Meta barreti Kulczyn'ski, 1899 (Madeira)
- Meta baywanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 (Philippines)
- Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 (Myanmar)
- Meta bournetiMeta bournetiMeta bourneti is an orb weaving cave spider closely related to Meta menardi.It is found from Europe to Georgia and North Africa.-References:* Platnick, N.I. . , version 7.5. American Museum of Natural History....
Simon, 1922 (Europe to Georgia, North Africa) - Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 (USA)
- Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938 (Congo)
- Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 (Japan)
- Meta longipalpis Pavesi, 1883 (Ethiopia)
- Meta maculata (Blackwall, 1865) (Cape Verde Is.)
- Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 (Russia, Korea)
- Meta melanicruciata Saito, 1939 (Japan)
- Meta menardiMeta menardiThe European cave spider, , is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider it is also known as the Orbweaving cave spider, the Cave orbweaver and simply the Cave spider .- Habitat :...
(Latreille, 1804) (Europe to Korea) - Meta merianopsis Tullgren, 1910 (East Africa)
- Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 (East Africa)
- Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 (Croatia)
- Meta minima Denis, 1953 (Canary Is.)
- Meta mixta O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 (Yarkand)
- Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 (Queensland)
- Meta montana Hogg, 1919 (Sumatra)
- Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 (China)
- Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920 (Portugal)
- Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 (China, Japan)
- Meta obscura Kulczyn'ski, 1899 (Canary Is., Madeira)
- Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) (USA, Canada)
- Meta patagiata Simon, 1901 (Argentina)
- Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983 (China)
- Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1958 (Korea, Japan)
- Meta rufolineata (Urquhart, 1889) (New Zealand)
- Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 (Cuba)
- Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 (China)
- Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 (India)
- Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 (Madeira)
- Meta tiniktirika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 (Philippines)
- Meta trivittata Keyserling, 1887 (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 (New South Wales)
- Meta vacillans Butler, 1876 (Rodriguez)
- Meta villiersi Denis, 1955 (Guinea)