Meta (spider)
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{About|a genus of spiders|other uses|Meta (disambiguation)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}}
| taxon = Meta
| image = Meta_sp._with_eggsac_(Marshal_Hedin).jpg
| image_caption = Meta sp. with eggsac
| authority = C. L. Koch, 1835
| type_species = M. menardi
| type_species_authority = (Latreille, 1804)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 26, see text
| synonyms = *Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=217}}
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Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835.{{cite book |last=Koch |first=C. L. |title=Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten |publisher=Friedrich Pustet |year=1835 |editor-last=Herrich-Schäffer |editor-first=G. A. W. |editor-link=Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer |location= |pages=127–134 |chapter=Arachniden |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.15007 |lccn=ca11002214 |oclc=4195853 |author-link=Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch}} They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"
Species
{{as of|2021|03}} it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:{{cite web |year=2022 |title=Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3290 |website=World Spider Catalog Version 23.0 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |doi=10.24436/2 |accessdate=11 April 2022}}
- 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=
Synonyms include:
- Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
- Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922
=Dubious names=
Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:
- Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920
See also
References
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