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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Scientific classification 
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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] |
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| M. menardi (Latreille, 1804)
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Species edit
As of March 2021[update] it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:[1]
- 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 edit
- Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
- Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922
Dubious names edit
Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:[1]
- Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.