Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Detail
Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1895 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04199] Detail
type Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895; gender feminine
N.B.: as nomen nudum by Simon, 1894a: 519; removed from the synonymy of Chrysso O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 by Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 407, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 23; not a synonym of Physcoa Thorell, 1895 (Yoshida, 2001c: 174 [as synonym of Chrysso O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, by transfer of the type species], contra Simon, 1895a: 1068).
In synonymy:
Meotipa buitenzorgi (Strand, 1907) = Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Roewer, 1942a: 483, sub Theridion).
Meotipa clementinae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) (Levi, 1967b: 26).
Meotipa jianglensis (Zhu & Song, 1993, T from Chrysso) = Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 (Yoshida, 2006: 23, sub Chrysso).
Meotipa mussau Chrysanthus, 1975 = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) (Yoshida, 2003a: 126).
Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) | f | India (Andaman Is.)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006979]
Argyrodes andamanensis Tikader, 1977a: 170, f. 7A-B (Df).
Meotipa andamanensis Kulkarni et al., 2017: 515 (T from Argyrodes).
Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) | m f | India, China, Japan, Philippines     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007230]
Ariamnes argyrodiformis Yaginuma, 1952: 14, f. 1-6 (Df).
Topo argyrodiformis Yaginuma, 1955c: 16 (T from Ariamnes = Argyrodes).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Yaginuma, 1965a: 35 (T from Topo = Thwaitesia).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Yaginuma, 1986a: 45, f. 24.3 (f, Dm).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Chikuni, 1989b: 32, f. 14 (mf).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Chen & Gao, 1990: 93, f. 116 (f).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 419, f. 248a-i, 249a-b (mf).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Yoshida, 2003a: 128, f. 338, 343-345, 584 (mf).
Meotipa argyrodiformis Yoshida, 2009b: 378, f. 208-210 (mf, T from Chrysso).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Yin et al., 2012: 293, f. 106a-d (f).
Chrysso argyrodiformis Sen et al., 2015: 85, f. 493-498, pl. 19 (f).
Meotipa argyrodiformis Deng et al., 2022: 155, f. 1A-H (f).
Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 | m f | Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043087]
Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 419, f. 20-37 (Dmf).
Meotipa capacifaba Li, Liu, Xu & Yin, 2020 | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052397]
Meotipa capacifaba Li et al., 2020b: 178, f. 1A-J, 2A-E, 3A-E (Dmf).
Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 | m f | Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043088]
Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 425, f. 38-47 (Dmf).
Meotipa kudawaensis Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024 | f | Sri Lanka     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063054]
Meotipa kudawaensis Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 3, f. 2A-J, 3A-B (Df).
Meotipa lingulata Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024 | f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062891]
Meotipa lingulata Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024: 160, 1A-F, 2A-B (Df).
Meotipa luoqiae Lin & Li, 2021 | m | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053145]
Meotipa luoqiae Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2021a: 146, f. 47A-C, 48A-B, 53G-H (Dm).
Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) | f | Philippines     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048251]
Chrysso makiling Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015: 23, f. 1A-D (Df).
Meotipa makiling Murthappa et al., 2017: 595 (T from Chrysso).
Meotipa menglun Lin & Li, 2021 | m | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053146]
Meotipa menglun Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2021a: 148, f. 49A-C, 50A-D, 53I-J (Dm).
Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 | m f | India, Sri Lanka     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049712]
Meotipa multuma Murthappa et al., 2017: 592, f. 3A-E, 4E-F (Df).
Meotipa multuma Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021b: 81, f. 1-8 (Dm, f).
Meotipa multuma Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 5, f. 1A-C, 4A-I, 5A-H, 6A-C (mf).
Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 | f | Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043089]
Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 429, f. 48-50 (Df).
Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 * | m f | India, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007261]
Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895g: 133 (Df).
Meotipa picturata Levi & Levi, 1962: 47, f. 112-113 (f).
Meotipa picturata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 410, f. 1-3 (f).
Meotipa picturata Kulkarni et al., 2017: 515, f. 39-44 (f).
Meotipa picturata Murthappa et al., 2017: 590, f. 1A-J, 2A-F, 4A-D (Dm, f).
Meotipa picturata Deng et al., 2022: 161, f. 3A-H, 9A (f).
Meotipa picturata Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 12, f. 1D-E, 7A-J, 8A-I, 9A-D (mf).
Meotipa pseudomultuma Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024 | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062892]
Meotipa pseudomultuma Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024: 162, f. 3A-F, 4A-B, 5A-F, 6A-C (Dmf).
Meotipa pseudopicturata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 | f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053715]
Meotipa pseudopicturata Deng et al., 2022: 169, f. 7A-H (Df).
Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) | m f | Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia (New Guinea), Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007262]
Argyrodes pulcherrimus Mello-Leitão, 1917a: 86, f. 7-8 (Df).
Meotipa clementinae Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 212, f. 61-62 (Df)  [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062894].
Meotipa clementinae Schmidt, 1956a: 30, f. 6 (Dm).
Meotipa clementinae Schmidt, 1956f: 240, f. 1 (f).
Chrysso clementinae Levi, 1962b: 231, f. 71-75 (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Levi, 1967b: 26 (removed from S of Argyrodes elevatus, rejecting Exline & Levi, 1962: 135, S of Meotipa clementinae).
Chrysso pulcherrima Levi, 1967c: 182, f. 28-31 (mf).
Chrysso mussau Chrysanthus, 1975: 48, f. 174-177 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007253].
Chrysso pulcherrima Zhu & Zhang, 1992: 23, f. 3A-D (mf).
Chrysso clementinae Müller, 1992: 99, f. 5-6 (f).
Chrysso pulcherrima Yoshida, 1993c: 30, f. 10-12, 20 (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Zhu, 1998: 54, f. 28A-D (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 103, f. 50A-B, J (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Yoshida, 2003a: 126, f. 337, 341-342 (mf, S of Chrysso mussau).
Chrysso pulcherrima Seo, 2005a: 123, f. 2A-B (m).
Meotipa pulcherrima Yoshida, 2009b: 378, f. 211-213 (mf, T from Chrysso).
Meotipa pulcherrima Kim, 2021: 79, f. 32A-F (f).
Meotipa pulcherrima Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 50, 5 f. (mf).
Meotipa pulcherrima Deng et al., 2022: 158, f. 2A-H, 9C-D (f).
Meotipa pulcherrima Noguchi et al., 2023: 144, f. 3F (f).
Chrysso pulcherrima Baert et al., 2023: 30, f. 111A-D (mf).
Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 | m f | India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049478]
Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni et al., 2017: 506, f. 1-38 (Dmf).
Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | m f | Sri Lanka, India, China, Taiwan, Japan     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007273]
Theridion spiniventre O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 384, pl. 12, f. 52-56 (Dm).
Theridion buitenzorgi Strand, 1907m: 412 (invalid provisional name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062895].
Theridion spiniventre Roewer, 1942a: 483 (S of Theridion buitenzorgi).
Theridion spiniventre van der Hammen, 1949: 76, f. 1-3 (mf).
Theridion spiniventre Yoshida, 1977: 9, f. 1-4 (mf).
Chrysso spiniventre Yaginuma, 1986a: 46, f. 24.5 (mf, T from Theridion).
Theridion spiniventre Song, 1987: 128, f. 89 (mf).
Chrysso spiniventris Zhu, 1998: 66, f. 38A-D (mf).
Chrysso spiniventris Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 107, f. 50E-L (mf).
Chrysso spiniventris Yoshida, 2003a: 130, f. 346-350 (mf).
Meotipa spiniventris Yoshida, 2009b: 378, f. 214-216 (mf, T from Chrysso).
Meotipa spiniventris Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 15, f. 10A-H, 11A-I, 12A-B (mf).
Meotipa striata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 | f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053716]
Meotipa striata Deng et al., 2022: 171, f. 8A-H (Df).
Meotipa sujii Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024 | m f | Sri Lanka     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063055]
Meotipa sujii Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 18, f. 13A-G, 14A-H, 15A-H, 16A-I, 17A-C (Dmf).
Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 | m f | Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043086]
Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 411, f. 4-12 (Dmf).
Meotipa tortuosa Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024 | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062893]
Meotipa tortuosa Liang, Yin & Xu, 2024: 166, f. 7A-F, 8A-B, 9A-F, 10A-C (Dmf).
Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 | f | India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051281]
Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019a: 21, f. 1-15 (Df).
Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 | m f | Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007281]
Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1894a: 514, f. 522, 527 (nomen nudum).
Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895g: 134 (Df).
Chrysso vesiculosa Levi, 1962b: 232, f. 80-81 (f).
Chrysso vesiculosa Yaginuma, 1986a: 45, f. 24.1 (f).
Chrysso vesiculosa Chikuni, 1989b: 32, f. 15 (f).
Chrysso jianglensis Zhu & Song, in Song, Zhu & Li, 1993: 857, f. 9A-C (Dm)  [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007248].
Chrysso vesiculosa Zhu, 1998: 51, f. 25A-C (f).
Chrysso jianglensis Zhu, 1998: 68, f. 39A-C (m).
Chrysso jianglensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 103, f. 49K-L (m).
Chrysso vesiculosa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 107, f. 51E-F (f).
Chrysso vesiculosa Yoshida, 2003a: 125, f. 336, 339-340, 583 (f).
Chrysso vesiculosa Yoshida, 2006: 23, f. 1-7 (mf, S of Chrysso jianglensis).
Meotipa vesiculosa Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 415, f. 13-19 (mf, T from Chrysso).
Meotipa vesiculosa Yoshida, 2009b: 378, f. 205-207 (mf).
Chrysso vesiculosa Yin et al., 2012: 305, f. 115a-f (mf).
Meotipa vesiculosa Deng et al., 2022: 167, f. 6A-H (f).
Meotipa wuzhishanensis Benjamin, 2024 | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063056]
Meotipa spiniventris Deng et al., 2022: 163, f. 4A-H, 5A-H, 9B (mf; misidentified per Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 22).
Meotipa wuzhishanensis Benjamin, in Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 22 (Dmf).
Meotipa zhengguoi Lin & Li, 2021 | m | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053147]
Meotipa zhengguoi Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2021a: 150, f. 51A-B, 52A-D, 53K-L (Dm).
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