Meta

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Metainae
Genus: Meta
Subgenera (8): M. (Menosira) – M. (Merianmeta) – M. (Meta) – M. (Metellina) – M. (Nipponmeta) – M. (Sinometa) – M. (Stridulameta) – †M. (Praetermeta)
Species (36): M. abdomenalis – M. barreti – M. baywanga – M. birmanica – M. bourneti – M. dolloff – M. gertschi – M. hamata – M. japonica – M. longipalpis – M. longlingensis – M. maculata – M. manchurica – M. menardi – M. merianopsis – M. meruensis – M. milleri – M. minima – M. mixta – M. monogrammata – M. montana – M. nebulosa – M. nigra – M. nigridorsalis – M. obscura – M. ovalis – M. qianshanensis – M. reticuloides – M. rufolineata – M. serrana – M. shenae – M. simlaensis – M. stridulans – M. tangi – M. tiniktirika – M. trivittata – M. turbatrix – M. vacillans – M. villiersi – M. yani – M. yinae – †M. maculosa
Name

Meta C. L. Koch, 1836

Type species: Epeira fusca Walckenaer, 1805 [=M. menardi
(Latreille, 1804)]
Synonyms

Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933, type A. ovalis
Gertsch, 1933, by monotypy

References
Primary references

Koch, C. L. 1836. Arachniden. In Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W., Deutschlands Insekten, Heft 134–141. [134]

Additional references

Marusik, Y. M. & S. Koponen. 1992. A review of Meta (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), with description of two new species. Journal of Arachnology 20(2): 137–143. PDF
Wang, L.Y., Zhou, G.C., Irfan, M., Yang, S.F. & Peng, X.J. 2020. Five new species of Meta Koch, 1836 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 624: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.624. Open access. Reference page.
Wunderlich, J. 2008. Descriptions of fossil spider (Araneae) taxa mainly in Baltic amber, as well as on certain related extant taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 44–139, 803–804, 813–818. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. Online.

Vernacular names
한국어: 시내거미속

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"
Species

As of March 2021 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

Synonyms include:[1]

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

Dubious names

Nomina dubia (dubious names) include:[1]

Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920

See also

List of Tetragnathidae species

References

"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.