Meringa

Meringa
	Meringa sp. male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Physoglenidae
Genus:	Meringa ; Forster, 1990
Type species
	M. otago ; Forster, 1990
Species
	9, see text

Last updated January 26, 2026

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]

Species

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

Meringa australis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa borealis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa centralis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa conway Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa hinaka Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa leith Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa nelson Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
Meringa otago Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
Meringa tetragyna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

References

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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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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[wsc-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.

[Fors1990-2] 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.

[Dimi2017-3] 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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