Meotipa

Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.^[2]

Species[]

As of May 2020 it contains fourteen species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:^[1]

(Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
(Yaginuma, 1952) – China, Japan, Philippines, India
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
(Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 – India
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
Simon, 1895 (type) – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia
Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Tropical Africa. Introduced to the Americas, Papua New Guinea, China, Korea, Japan, Pacific Is.
Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 – India
Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 – India
Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 – China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia

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)

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
^ 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.

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