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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Meotipa Simon, 1895 |
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| M. picturata Simon, 1895 | |
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Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.
Species
As of January 2024 it contains twenty species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:
- Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
- Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) – China, Japan, Philippines, India
- Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Meotipa capacifaba Li, Liu, Xu & Yin, 2020 – China
- Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Meotipa luoqiae Lin & Li, 2021 – China
- Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
- Meotipa menglun Lin & Li, 2021 – China
- Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 – India
- Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 (type) – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia
- Meotipa pseudopicturata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
- Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa
- Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 – India
- Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
- Meotipa striata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
- Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 – India
- Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 – China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia
- Meotipa zhengguoi Lin & Li, 2021 – China
In synonymy:
- 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)
See also
References
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2024). "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- 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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