Nanometa

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Nanometa lagenifera.jpg

| image_caption = Nanometa lagenifera

| taxon = Nanometa

| authority = Simon, 1908

| synonyms =

• Eryciniolia Strand, 1912
• Nediphya Marusik & Omelko, 2017

}}

Nanometa is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers containing the fifteen species. It was erected by Eugène Louis Simon based on the type specimen of Nanometa gentilis found in 1908.{{citation| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1908| contribution=Araneae. 1re partie| editor-last1=Michaelsen| editor-last2=Hartmeyer| title=Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena| volume=1| issue=12| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}{{cite web| title=Gen. Nanometa Simon, 1908| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-12-01| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3297| doi=10.24436/2}} It is included in a clade of its own defined by nine morphological synapomorphies, along with the genus Orsinome.{{cite journal| last=Álvarez-Padilla| first=F.| last2=Hormiga| first2=G.| year=2011| title=Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| volume=162| page=139}}