Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0032] Back

Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01386 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933c: 11 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04946] (type A. ovalis Gertsch 1933) by Lehtinen, 1967: 217; not a senior synonym of Metabus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 (Archer, 1951a: 5); the synonymy of Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 by Wunderlich, 1987a: 129 and Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix has not been followed by subsequent workers and is not accepted here; type genus of the subfamily Metainae Simon, 1894a: 726 (sub Meteae).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-11-03
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C. L. Koch, 1835: 134, 12-13 (type Meta fusca De Geer, 1778, sensu C. L. Koch, 1835 (= misidentified Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804)); gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
33accepted
2synonym
3nomen dubium
Reference

Koch, C. L. (1835). Arachniden. In: Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.) Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, Heft 127-134. [H. 127 & 134 moved from 1834 & 1836 after Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 109] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007 download pdf

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