Meta (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Meta (disambiguation).

Meta
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
Meta sp. with eggsac
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Meta
C. L. Koch, 1835[1]
Type species
M. menardi
(Latreille, 1804)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms[1]

Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835.[3] They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 217.
  3. ^ Koch, C. L. (1835). "Arachniden". In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.). Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet. pp. 127–134. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007. LCCN ca11002214. OCLC 4195853.