Meotipa sahyadri

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Meotipa sahyadri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Meotipa
Species:
M. sahyadri
Binomial name
Meotipa sahyadri
(Kulkarni, Siddharth & Vartak, 2017 )

Meotipa sahyadri is a spider species of the genus Meotipa that is mainly indigenous to the Western Ghats in India.[1][2][3][4]

Meotipa sahyadri, named after the Sanskrit name for the Western Ghats i.e., Sahyadri.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Indian spider, named for Western Ghats". Indian Express. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ Kulkarni, Siddharth; Vartak, Atul; Deshpande, Vishwas; Halali, Dheeraj (2017). "Meotipa sahyadri in The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.827662. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  3. ^ "[Arachnida • 2017] The Spiny Theridiid Genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Theridiidae) in India, with Description of A Strange New Species, Meotipa sahyadri, with Translucent Abdomen and A Phylogenetic Analysis about the Genus Placement". Novataxa. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. ^ Kulkarni, Siddharth; Vartak, Atul; Deshpande, Vishwas; Halali, Dheeraj (13 July 2017). "The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Zootaxa. 4291 (3): 504–520. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.4. Retrieved 26 October 2017.