Meotipa

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Meotipa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Meotipa
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
M. picturata
Simon, 1895
Species

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Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[1][2]

Species[edit]

As of January 2024 it contains twenty species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]

In synonymy:

  • M. clementinae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
  • M. jianglensis (Zhu & Song, 1993) = Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895
  • M. mussau Chrysanthus, 1975 = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c World Spider Catalog (2024). "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160 [1393].