Meta (spider)

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Meta
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Meta
C. L. Koch, 1835 [1]
Type species
M. menardi
(Latreille, 1804)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms [1]

Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835. [3] They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"

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Species

As of March 2021 it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide: [1]

Synonyms

Synonyms include: [1]

Dubious names

Nomina dubia (dubious names) include: [1]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 217.
  3. Koch, C. L. (1835). "Arachniden". In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.). Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet. pp. 127–134. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007. LCCN   ca11002214. OCLC   4195853.