Meotipa

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

Species

As of November 2021 it contains eighteen species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:^[1]

• 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 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
• 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

• List of Theridiidae species

References