Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Metidae Simon, 1894 by Heimer & Nentwig, 1982: 292 and Levi, 1986a: 93 (although not by Wunderlich, 1986: 115); Metidae/Metinae is preoccupied in the Copepoda and emened to Metainae by ICZN, 2013 (Opinion 2326) following the proposal of Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011b; Diphyini is preoccupied in the Hydrozoa and emened to Diphyaini by ICZN, 2021 (Opinion 3774) following the proposal of Marusik, 2018d; see also the notes at the Araneidae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae; includes taxa placed by Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 in the "Nanometidae" (see Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 802); also Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318 and Pachygnathidae Menge, 1866: 94 are included; mentioning of "Tetragnathiens" by Simon, 1864: 325, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here.

In synonymy:

Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933 = Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 (Lehtinen, 1967: 217)

Gen. Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01386
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933c: 11 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04946] (type A. ovalis Gertsch 1933) by Lehtinen, 1967: 217; not a senior synonym of Metabus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 (Archer, 1951a: 5); the synonymy of Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 by Wunderlich, 1987a: 129 and Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix has not been followed by subsequent workers and is not accepted here.

Transferred to other genera:

Meta adjuntaensis Petrunkevitch, 1930 -- see Araneus

Meta aerea Hogg, 1896 -- see Trichonephila

Meta alticola Berland, 1913 -- see Chrysometa

Meta antrorum Simon, 1907 -- see Metellina

Meta argentiopunctata Rainbow, 1916 -- see Mesida

Meta aurora Simon, 1901 -- see Allende

Meta barreti Kulczyński, 1899 -- see Metellina

Meta baywanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 -- see Neriene

Meta berlandi Caporiacco, 1954 -- see Manogea

Meta blanda Bryant, 1945 -- see Araneus

Meta brasilica Soares & Camargo, 1948 -- see Manogea

Meta bryantae Brignoli, 1983 -- see Araneus

Meta canariensis Schmidt, 1975 -- see Metellina

Meta chilensis Tullgren, 1902 -- see Allende

Meta cordillera Tullgren, 1902 -- see Allende

Meta curtisi (McCook, 1894) -- see Metellina

Meta davidi Schenkel, 1963 -- see Metleucauge

Meta dentipalpis Kroneberg, 1875 -- see Metleucauge

Meta digna (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) -- see Leucauge

Meta doenitzi Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 -- see Neoscona

Meta echinata Tullgren, 1902 -- see Allende

Meta espiritosantensis Soares & Camargo, 1955 -- see Manogea

Meta explorans Chamberlin, 1916 -- see Chrysometa

Meta fuegiana Simon, 1902 -- see Metabus

Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938 -- see Metellina

Meta gravida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) -- see Metabus

Meta hotteiensis Bryant, 1945 -- see Araneus

Meta jayuyensis Petrunkevitch, 1930 -- see Chrysometa

Meta kirgisica Bakhvalov, 1974 -- see Metellina

Meta kompirensis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 -- see Metleucauge

Meta lepida Keyserling, 1882 -- see Chrysometa

Meta linguiformis Franganillo, 1930 -- see Chrysometa

Meta longipalpis Pavesi, 1883 -- see Metellina

Meta longipes (Nicolet, 1849) -- see Allende

Meta ludibunda (Keyserling, 1893) -- see Chrysometa

Meta maculata (Blackwall, 1865) -- see Tetragnatha

Meta melanicruciata Saito, 1939 -- see Enoplognatha

Meta merianae (Scopoli, 1763) -- see Metellina

Meta merianopsis Tullgren, 1910 -- see Metellina

Meta minima Denis, 1953 -- see Metellina

Meta minuta Keyserling, 1882 -- see Chrysometa

Meta monticola Keyserling, 1882 -- see Chrysometa

Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920 -- see Metellina

Meta nigrohumeralis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 -- see Allende

Meta nigrovittata Keyserling, 1865 -- see Chrysometa

Meta orientalis Spassky, 1932 -- see Metellina

Meta patagiata Simon, 1901 -- see Allende

Meta peckhami (McCook, 1894) -- see Metellina

Meta porteri Simon, 1898 -- see Allende

Meta ramblae Schmidt, 1975 -- see Metellina

Meta raripila (Keyserling, 1893) -- see Chrysometa

Meta reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758) -- see Metellina

Meta reticulata mengei (Blackwall, 1869) -- see Metellina

Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1958 -- see Zhinu

Meta rufolineata (Urquhart, 1889) -- see Taraire

Meta satulla Keyserling, 1880 -- see Chrysometa

Meta sinensis Schenkel, 1953 -- see Metleucauge

Meta speciosissima Keyserling, 1881 -- see Leucauge

Meta tiniktirika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 -- see Neriene

Meta torta Tullgren, 1902 -- see Allende

Meta trivittata Keyserling, 1887 -- see Nanometa

Meta unicolor Keyserling, 1881 -- see Chrysometa

Meta vacillans Butler, 1876 -- see Tetragnatha

Meta vena Dönitz & Strand, 1906 -- see Metleucauge

Meta villiersi Denis, 1955 -- see Metellina

Meta yunohamensis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 -- see Metleucauge

In synonymy:

Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992 = Meta ovalis Gertsch, 1933 (Dondale, 1995: 125)

Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 = Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 (Wunderlich, 2011: 209)

Nomina dubia:

Meta albisparsa Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 332 (m, Argentina) -- Levi, 1986a: 106

Meta preciosissima (Keyserling, 1893: 367, pl. 19, f. 274, f, Guatemala, originally in Argyroepeira) -- Levi, 1986a: 106

Meta voluptabilis (Keyserling, 1893: 356, pl. 18, f. 263, m, Brazil, originally in Argyroepeira) -- Levi, 1986a: 106

Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037054
Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993a: 1, f. 1a-d (Df) Original description
Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 | | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013870
Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898: 333 (Df) Original description
Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 | | Europe, Georgia, North Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013871
Meta bourneti Simon, 1922: 199 (Dmf) Original description
Meta bourneti Simon, 1929: 657, 752, f. 1011-1012 (mf)
Meta bourneti Kratochvíl, 1942: 111, f. I.2 (f)
Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942: 111, f. I.1, II.1-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013882]
Meta bourneti Browning & Tams, 1944: 94, f. 1-2, 4 (mf)
Meta bourneti Locket & Millidge, 1953: 119, f. 78A, D (mf)
Meta bourneti Levi, 1980a: 43, f. 128-131 (mf)
Meta bourneti Roberts, 1985: 202, f. 90e, 91e (mf)
Meta bourneti Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 62, f. 137 (mf)
Meta bourneti Roberts, 1995: 310, f. (mf)
Meta bourneti Bellmann, 1997: 100, f. (f)
Meta bourneti Roberts, 1998: 323, f. (mf)
Meta bourneti Trotta, 2005: 174, f. 435, 437 (mf)
Meta bourneti Wunderlich, 2011: 206, f. 4a-b (mf, S of Meta milleri, after Brignoli, 1983c: 229)
Meta bourneti Isaia et al., 2011: 144, f. 2.75A-B. 2.76-77 (mf)
Meta bourneti Prince, 2018: 26, f. 1-2 (f)
Meta bourneti Morano, 2020: 104, f. 2-3 (mf)
Meta bourneti Geci et al., 2022: 76, f. 4A-C (f)
Meta bourneti Hoyas, 2022: 168, f. 1-2 (f)
Meta bowo Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055087
Meta bowo Wang et al., 2022a: 119, f. 1A-B, 2A-C, 3A-E, 4A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta cona Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055088
Meta cona Wang et al., 2022a: 124, f. 1C-D, 5A-E, 6A-E, 7A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013872
Meta dolloff Levi, 1980a: 43, f. 132-135 (Dmf) Original description
Meta gyirong Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055089
Meta gyirong Wang et al., 2022a: 128, f. 1E, 8A-C, 9A-D (Dm) Original description
Meta hamata Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051803
Meta hamata Wang et al., 2020a: 2, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-B, 4A-E (Dmf) Original description
Meta hongyuan Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055090
Meta hongyuan Wang et al., 2022a: 130, f. 1F-G, 10A-E, 11A-D, 12A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013874
Meta menardi Yaginuma, 1986a: 124, f. 66 (mf, misidentified)
Meta menardi Chikuni, 1989b: 88, f. 84 (mf, misidentified)
Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993b: 98, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description
Meta japonica Tanikawa, 2007c: 97, f. 322, 776-777 (mf)
Meta japonica Tanikawa, 2009: 406, f. 13-14 (mf)
Meta longlingensis Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051804
Meta longlingensis Wang et al., 2020a: 7, f. 1I, 5A-D, 6A-C (Dm) Original description
Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 | | Russia (Far East), Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013877
Meta menardi Paik, Yaginuma & Namkung, 1969: 823, f. 50-51 (f, misidentified)
Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992: 138, f. 5-9, 15 (Dmf) Original description
Meta menardi Kim, Kim & Lee, 1999: 53, f. 8, 33, 55 (mf; misidentified per Yoo et al., 2015: 40)
Meta manchurica Namkung, 2002: 228, f. 18.15a-d (mf)
Meta manchurica Namkung, 2003: 230, f. 18.15a-d (mf)
Meta manchurica Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2011: 235, f. 34.22-23 (mf)
Meta manchurica Kim & Lee, 2013: 44, f. 27A-C (mf)
Meta manchurica Fomichev & Omelko, 2023b: 50, f. 1-19, 23 (mf)
Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) | | Europe, Turkey, Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013879
Aranea novem-maculata Martini & Goeze, 1778: 293 (D)
Aranea menardii Latreille, 1804a: 266 (Df) Original description
Aranea novemmaculata Panzer, 1804b: 148, pl. 158, f. 6
Epeira menardi Latreille, 1806: 108
Meta fusca C. L. Koch, 1835: 134, pl. 12-13 (mf, misidentified)
Meta fusca C. L. Koch, 1841a: 118, f. 685-687 (mf, misidentified)
Meta menardi Thorell, 1856: 98
Meta menardi Westring, 1861: 78 (m)
Epeira fusca Blackwall, 1864a: 349, pl. 26, f. 252 (mf, misidentified)
Meta menardi Thorell, 1870a: 38
Meta menardi Hansen, 1882: 25, pl. 2, f. 2 (mf)
Meta menardi Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 139, pl. 6, f. 3 (mf)
Meta menardi Keyserling, 1893: 313, pl. 16, f. 231 (mf)
Meta menardi McCook, 1894: 246, pl. 22, f. 4-5 (mf)
Meta menardi Simon, 1894a: 735, f. 810 (m)
Meta menardi Becker, 1896: (2): 60, pl. 12, f. 1 (mf)
Meta menardi Bösenberg, 1901: 47, pl. 3, f. 37 (mf)
Meta menardi Simon, 1929: 656, 751, f. 1009-1010 (mf)
Meta menardi Reimoser, 1929c: 62, f. 7 (mf)
Meta menardi Wiehle, 1931: 128, f. 4c, 5b, 205-209 (mf)
Meta menardi Komatsu, 1942b: 65, f. 7 (f)
Meta menardi Drensky, 1943: 247, f. 31 (mf)
Meta menardi Browning & Tams, 1944: 94, f. 3 (mf)
Meta menardi Locket & Millidge, 1953: 119, f. 78B-C (mf)
Meta menardi Komatsu, 1961a: 29, f. 18A-D (f)
Meta menardi Miller, 1971: 202, pl. XXXVII, f. 8-9 (mf)
Meta menardi Loksa, 1972: 72, f. 58B, 61C-D (mf)
Meta menardi Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 61, f. 36B (m)
Meta menardi Roberts, 1985: 202, f. 90d, 91d (mf)
Meta menardi Coddington, 1990: 16, f. 54 (m)
Meta menardi Heimer, 1990: 119, f. 30-31 (mf)
Meta menardi Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 62, f. 136 (mf)
Meta menardi Marusik & Koponen, 1992: 140, f. 10-13, 16 (mf)
Meta menardi Terhivuo, 1993: 55, f. 1h (f)
Meta menardi Roberts, 1995: 309, f. (mf)
Meta menardi Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington, 1995: 337, f. 13F-G (m)
Meta menardi Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 374, f. 11 (m)
Meta menardi Bellmann, 1997: 100, f. (f)
Meta menardi Roberts, 1998: 323, f. (mf)
Meta menardi Trotta, 2005: 174, f. 426, 434, 436 (m)
Meta menardi Almquist, 2005: 111, f. 131a-g (mf)
Meta menardi Jäger, 2006d: 3, f. 1-3a-b (m)
Meta menardi Álvarez-Padilla et al., 2009: 140, f. 11b-c, 12a (mf)
Meta menardi Wunderlich, 2011: 206, f. 3a-b (mf)
Meta menardi Isaia et al., 2011: 146, f. 2.80A-B. 2.81-82 (mf)
Meta menardi Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 773, f. 56A-F, 57A-F, 58A-F, 59A-F, 60A-C (mf)
Meta menardi Lecigne, 2020: 50, pl. 1L-M, ph. 1 (mf)
Meta menardi Morano, 2020: 104, f. 4-5 (mf)
Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 | | Tanzania, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013881
Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910: 151, pl. 3, f. 74 (Df) Original description
"Meta" meruensis Marusik & Larsen, 2018: 211 (misplaced in Meta and may belong to Leucauge)
Meta meruensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 24, 4 f. (f)
Meta meruensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 27, p 26: 1 f., p. 27: 1-4 (f)
Meta mixta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 | | Pakistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013884
Meta mixta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885b: 43 (Df) Original description
Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013885
Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876a: 352, pl. 10, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Meta montana Hogg, 1919 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013886
Meta montana Hogg, 1919: 87, pl. 8, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 | j | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013887
Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936b: 97, f. 34 (Dj) Original description
Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 | | China, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013889
Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994b: 66, f. 1-10 (Dmf) Original description
Meta nigridorsalis Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 63, f. 26A-F, 27A-H, pl. IIIA-D (mf)
Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 2007c: 97, f. 323-324, 778-779 (mf)
Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 2009: 407, f. 15-16 (mf)
Meta nigridorsalis Serita, 2021e: 273, f. 1n (f)
Meta nigridorsalis Okumura, 2022: 47, f. 11A-B (mf)
Meta obscura Kulczyński, 1899 | | Madeira urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013890
Meta merianae obscura Kulczyński, 1899: 389 (Df) Original description
Meta obscura Denis, 1953c: 4 (elevated from subspecies of M. merianae, fig. see Metellina minima)
Meta obscura Wunderlich, 2011: 209 (dubious taxon)
Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013891
Meta menardi Emerton, 1884: 328, pl. 34, f. 18, pl. 37, f. 33 (mf, misidentified)
Meta menardi Emerton, 1902: 190, f. 443-445 (mf, misidentified)
Auchicybaeus ovalis Gertsch, 1933c: 11, f. 15 (Df) Original description
Meta menardi Kaston, 1948: 223, f. 700-703 (m, misidentified)
Meta menardi Lehtinen, 1967: 217 (S, rejected)
Meta menardi Levi, 1980a: 42, f. 112-127 (mf, misidentified)
Meta americana Marusik & Koponen, 1992: 138, f. 1-4, 14 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056645]
Meta americana Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington, 1995: 324, f. 6A-C (m)
Meta ovalis Dondale, 1995: 125 (removed from S of M. menardi, contra Lehtinen, 1967, S of Meta americana)
Meta americana Griswold et al., 1998: 61, f. 10C (m)
Meta ovalis Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 206, f. 2292-2294 (mf)
Meta ovalis Dondale et al., 2003: 116, f. 255-263 (mf)
Meta ovalis Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 177, f. 19E-I (mf)
Meta ovalis Breuss, 2009: 306, f. 18-20 (m)
Meta menardi Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix (S of M. ovalis with M. menardi not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here)
Meta ovalis Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a: 408, f. 3A (m)
Meta ovalis Paquin et al., 2021: 22, f. 1-3 (mf)
Meta qianshanensis C. D. Zhu & S. F. Zh, 1983 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013893
Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983b: 139, f. a-f (Dmf) Original description
Meta qianshanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 216, f. 123H-I, L-M (mf)
Meta qianshanensis Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 65, f. 28A-F (mf)
Meta qianshanensis Wunderlich, 2008a: 98, f. 20-21 (m)
Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 | | Cuba urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013896
Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930: 20 (Df) Original description
Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038591
Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 67, f. 29A-D (Dm) Original description
Meta shenae Zhao, Yin & Peng, 2009: 19, f. 9-11 (Df)
Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013897
Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982a: 91, f. 179-182 (Df) Original description
Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 | | Madeira urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013899
Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987a: 130, f. 353-359 (Dmf) Original description
Meta tangi Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051805
Meta tangi Wang et al., 2020a: 10, f. 1C-D, 7A-D, 8A-B, 9A-E (Dmf) Original description
Meta tibet Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055091
Meta tibet Wang et al., 2022a: 134, f. 1H-J, 13A-E, 14A-E, 15A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013902
Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887a: 212, pl. 19, f. 3 (Dm) Original description
Meta wanglang Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055092
Meta wanglang Wang et al., 2022a: 138, f. 1J-K, 16A-E, 17A-D, 18A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta weining Wang, Irfan, Chen & Zhang, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055093
Meta weining Wang et al., 2022a: 142, f. 1L-M, 19A-E, 20A-D, 21A-B (Dmf) Original description
Meta yani Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051806
Meta yani Wang et al., 2020a: 14, f. 1E-F, 10A-D, 11A-B, 12A-E (Dmf) Original description
Meta yinae Wang, Zhou, Irfan, Yang & Peng, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051807
Meta yinae Wang et al., 2020a: 18, f. 1G-H, 13A-D, 14A-B, 15A-E (Dmf) Original description

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