Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0032] Detail
In synonymy:
Metargyra F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 = Metabus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 (Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 297)
Gen. Metabus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01387] Detail
type Metabus gravidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899; gender masculine; syn. of Metabus ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864)
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Meta C. L. Koch, 1836 by Archer, 1951a: 5; considered a senior synonym of Metargyra F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903a: 444 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05315] (type Argyroepeira debilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) by Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 297,
Transferred to other genera:
Metabus chilensis (Tullgren, 1902) -- see Allende
Metabus cordillera (Tullgren, 1902) -- see Allende
Metabus echinatus (Tullgren, 1902) -- see Allende
Metabus fuscolimbatus (Archer, 1958) -- see Chrysometa
Metabus longipes (Nicolet, 1849) -- see Allende
Metabus maculatus (Bryant, 1945) -- see Chrysometa
Metabus nigrohumeralis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) -- see Allende
Metabus porteri (Simon, 1900) -- see Allende
Metabus tortus (Tullgren, 1902) -- see Allende
In synonymy:
Metabus gravidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 = Metabus ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864) (Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 300).
Nomen dubium:
Metabus fuegianus (Simon, 1902h: 26, j, Chile, originally in Meta) -- Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 300.
Metabus conacyt Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 | m f | Mexico, Guatemala     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041045]
Metabus conacyt Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 306, f. 15A-H (Dmf).
Metabus debilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) | m f | Mexico to Ecuador     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013914]
Argyroepeira debilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 5, pl. 1, f. 9 (Df).
Argyroepeira debilis Keyserling, 1893: 365, pl. 19, f. 272 (f).
Argyroepeira debilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 218, pl. 28, f. 4-5 (f, Dm).
Metargyra debilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903a: 444, pl. 42, f. 15-16 (mf).
Metabus debilis Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 304, f. 13A-H (mf).
Metabus ebanoverde Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 | m f | Guatemala, Dominican Rep.     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041046]
Metabus ebanoverde Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 306, f. 14A-H (Dmf).
Metabus ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864) * | m f | Mexico to French Guiana     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013778]
Tetragnatha ocellata Keyserling, 1864: 149, pl. 7, f. 7-9 (Dmf).
Argyroepeira ocellata Keyserling, 1893: 336, pl. 17, f. 248 (f).
Metabus gravidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899a: 299, pl. 37, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013909].
Meta gravida F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903a: 446.
Leucauge ocellata Petrunkevitch, 1911: 356.
Meta gravida Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 109, f. 19-21 (f, Dm).
Metabus gravidus Nentwig, 1993: 122, f. 141a-c (mf, T from Meta, after Archer, 1951).
Metabus ocellatus Álvarez-Padilla, 2007: 300, f. 3A-E, 4A-E, 9A-E, 12A-L (mf, T from Leucauge, S of Metabus gravidus).
Metabus ocellatus Álvarez-Padilla et al., 2009: 138, f. 8c (f).
Metabus ocellatus Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 776, f. 61A-G, 62A-H, 63A-F, 64A-F, 65A-D (mf).
up