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Meta Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Meta sp. with eggsac
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Meta C. L. Koch, 1835
Type species
M. menardi (Latreille, 1804)
Species
26, see text
Synonyms
Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933

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

Species

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

• 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

Synonyms include:

• Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
• Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922

Dubious names

Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:

• Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

References

1. ^ "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.

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