Meringa

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Meringa
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Meringa sp. male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Meringa
Forster, 1990 [1]
Type species
M. otago
Forster, 1990
Species

9, see text

Meringa is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990. [2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017. [3]

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Species

As of September 2019 it contains nine species, found on New Zealand: [1]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Meringa Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ↑ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
  3. ↑ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi: 10.1111/cla.12165 . PMID   34715728.


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