Meotipa

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

Meotipa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Meotipa
Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
M. picturata
Simon, 1895
Species

14, see text

Species

As of May 2020 it contains fourteen species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]

  • Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977)India (Andaman Is.)
  • Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952)China, Japan, Philippines, India
  • Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
  • Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
  • Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 – India
  • Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 (type) – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia
  • Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Tropical Africa. Introduced to the Americas, Papua New Guinea, China, Korea, Japan, Pacific Is.
  • Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 – India
  • Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
  • Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
  • Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 – India
  • Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 – China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia

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

References

  1. "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  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.


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