Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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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
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Species
editAs of January 2024[update] it contains twenty 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, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Meotipa capacifaba Li, Liu, Xu & Yin, 2020 – China
- Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Meotipa luoqiae Lin & Li, 2021 – China
- Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
- Meotipa menglun Lin & Li, 2021 – China
- 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 pseudopicturata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
- Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa
- 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 striata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
- 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
- Meotipa zhengguoi Lin & Li, 2021 – China
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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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].
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