Taxon details


Metellina merianae (Scopoli, 1763)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-11
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013918]
  • Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Russia (Europe to Central Asia)
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Aranea merianae Scopoli, 1763: 395 (D).
Aranea fusca De Geer, 1778: 335, pl. 11, f. 9-12 (Df).
Aranea fusca Olivier, 1789: 204.
Aranea antriada Walckenaer, 1802: 201 (Df).
Epeira antriada Walckenaer, 1805: 62.
Epeira inclinata Sundevall, 1833a: 250 (Df, var. b).
Meta merianae C. L. Koch, 1835: 134, pl. 14-16 (mf).
Meta merianae C. L. Koch, 1841a: 121, f. 688-690 (Dmf).
Meta muraria C. L. Koch, 1841a: 125, f. 693-694 (Dmf).
Epeira celata Blackwall, 1841a: 668 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013919].
Meta fusca Thorell, 1856: 98.
Meta fusca Westring, 1861: 76 (Dm).
Zilla antriada Simon, 1864: 237.
Epeira antriada Blackwall, 1864a: 351, pl. 26, f. 253 (mf).
Epeira celata Blackwall, 1864a: 353, pl. 26, f. 254 (mf).
Meta muraria Menge, 1866: 88, pl. 14, f. 25 (mf).
Meta merianae Thorell, 1870a: 36.
Meta subterranea Lebert, 1877: 137 (Dm).
Meta merianae Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 139, pl. 6, f. 2 (mf).
Meta merianae celata Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 139.
Meta merianae Simon, 1894a: 730, f. 811 (m).
Meta merianae Becker, 1896: (2): 58, pl. 11, f. 4 (mf).
Meta merianae Bösenberg, 1901: 47, pl. 3, f. 38 (mf).
Meta merianae Bacelar, 1929: 260, f. 13-14 (mf).
Meta merianae Simon, 1929: 656, 752, f. 1007-1008 (mf).
Meta merianae Wiehle, 1931: 125, f. 202-204 (mf).
Meta merianae Drensky, 1943: 247, f. 31 (mf).
Meta merianae Locket & Millidge, 1953: 117, f. 76D, 77C (mf).
Meta merianae Miller, 1971: 201, pl. XXXVII, f. 7 (m).
Meta merianae Loksa, 1972: 71, f. 61A-B (mf).
Meta merianae Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 61, f. 36C (m).
Meta merianae Palmgren, 1974a: 41, f. 18a-d (mf).
Metellina merianae Levi, 1980a: 34, f. 108-111 (Tmf from Meta).
Meta merianae Heimer, 1982: 45, f. 14 (m).
Meta merianae Roberts, 1985: 202, f. 90c, 91c (mf).
Metellina merianae Levy, 1987: 255, f. 57-62 (f).
Metellina merianae Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 64, f. 138 (mf).
Meta merianae Roberts, 1995: 309, f. (mf).
Metellina merianae Roberts, 1998: 322, f. (mf).
Metellina merianae Trotta, 2005: 174, f. 428, 431 (mf).
Metellina merianae Almquist, 2005: 114, f. 133a-g (mf).
Metellina merianae Jäger, 2006d: 3, f. 1-3c-f (mf).
Meta merianae Wunderlich, 2008a: 95, f. 18, 19a-b (m).
Meta merianae Wunderlich, 2011: 209, f. 9 (m, S).
Metellina merianae Isaia et al., 2011: 148, f. 2.85A-B, 2.86 (mf).
Metellina merianae Marusik et al., 2014a: 262, f. 8a-d (mf).
Metellina merianae Morano, 2020: 105, f. 7, 10-11 (mf).
Metellina merianae Hoyas, 2022: 168, f. 3-4 (f).
References

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Bacelar, A. (1929). Notas aracnológicas. II. Caracteres dos palpos e epiginos de algunas aranhas portuguesas. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias Naturais 10: 245-262. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1841a). The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18(4): 601-670. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1838.tb00210.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1864a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Part II. Ray Society, London, pp. 175-384, pl. 13-29. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143674 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1901). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96, Pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

De Geer, C. (1778). Des araignées. In: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Tome septième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 176-324, pl. 11-19, 38-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bulletin des Institutions Royales d'Histoire Naturelle à Sophia 16: 219-254. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. (1982). Interne Arretierungsmechanismen an der Kopulationsorganen männlicher Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Araneoidea. Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 45: 35-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hoyas, J. (2022). Nuevos datos sobre Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Araneae) en la provincia de Toledo (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 168-169. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Isaia, M., Paschetta, M., Lana, E., Pantini, P., Schönhofer, A. L., Christian, E. & Badino, G. (2011). Subterranean arachnids of the western Italian Alps. Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali Torino, Monografie 47: 1-325. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2006d). I. Order Araneae. In: Gerecke, R. (ed.) Chelicerata: Araneae, Acari I. Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa 7/2-1, 1-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694); Neunter Band, pp. 1-56, pl. 289-306 (f. 695-726). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 -- Show included taxa

Lebert, H. (1877). Die Spinnen der Schweiz, ihr Bau, ihr Leben, ihre systematische Übersicht. Neue Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 27: 1-321, pl. 1-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1980a). The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 1-74. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1987). Spiders of the genera Araniella, Zygiella, Zilla and Mangora (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel, with notes on Metellina species from Lebanon. Zoologica Scripta 16(3): 243-257. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1987.tb00071.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1972). Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Nadimi, A., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2014a). First data about cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 60(3): 255-266. doi:10.1080/09397140.2014.943465 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1866). Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N.F.) 1: 1-152. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Morano, E. (2020). La familia Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Araneae) en el área ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 101-136. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1974a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fennica 24: 1-70. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Scopoli, J. A. (1763). Entomologia carniolica, exhibens insecta carniolae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnaeana. Ioannis Thomae Trattner, Vindobonae [= Johannes Thomas Trattner, Wien/Vienna], 420 pp. (Araneae, pp. 392-404). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.34434 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, 540 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1929). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris, 533-772. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sundevall, C. J. (1833a). Svenska spindlarnes beskrifning. Fortsättning och slut. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 1832: 172-272. [publ. in 1833, see Blick & Kronestedt, 2000] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1856). Recensio critica aranearum suecicarum quas descripserunt Clerckius, Linnaeus, de Geerus. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3) 2(1): 61-176. [the cited page numbers at the single species refer to a separate, which started at p. 1] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1870a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part I. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 1-96. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.69282 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1802). Faune parisienne. Insectes. Ou histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris, classés d'après le système de Fabricius. Tome seconde. Dentu, Paris, pp. 187-250, 428-430. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8151 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1861). Araneae svecicae. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 7: 1-615. [publ. also as separate in 1862] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 27. Familie. Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008a). 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-11 New taxonomic reference entry Hoyas, 2022 n/a
2021-01-04 New taxonomic reference entry Morano, 2020 n/a
2014-09-08 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik et al., 2014a n/a
2014-09-08 Species distribution update Marusik et al., 2014a n/a (Old value)