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N.B.: the authorship of the family is corrected from Menge, 1866: 90 to Simon, 1864: 244 (sub Tetragnathiens) following the arguing by Marusik & Özkütük, 2026: 276, the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet, Platnick and in the WSC until 2026; considered a senior synonym of Metidae Simon, 1894a: 726 (sub Meteae) 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; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list five subfamilies as valid: Diphyainae Simon, 1894a: 742 (sub Diphyeae), Leucauginae Caporiacco, 1955: 318, Metainae, Nanometinae Forster & Forster, 1999: 166 and Tetragnathinae.
In synonymy:
Auchicybaeus Gertsch, 1933 = Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 (Lehtinen, 1967: 217)
Nuctobia Simon, 1864 = Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 (Bonnet, 1957: 2783)
Transferred to other genera:
Meta adjuntaensis Petrunkevitch, 1930 -- see Araneus
Meta adspersata Karsch, 1892 -- see Cyrtophora
Meta aerea Hogg, 1896 -- see Trichonephila
Meta alticola Berland, 1913 -- see Chrysometa
Meta antriada (Walckenaer, 1802) -- see Metellina
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 elegans Thorell, 1877 -- see Leucauge
Meta espiritosantensis Soares & Camargo, 1955 -- see Manogea
Meta explorans Chamberlin, 1916 -- see Chrysometa
Meta fuegiana Simon, 1902 -- see Metabus
Meta fusca (De Geer, 1778) -- see Metellina
Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938 -- see Metellina
Meta gravida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) -- see Metabus
Meta hotteiensis Bryant, 1945 -- see Araneus
Meta inclinata (Walckenaer, 1802) -- see Metellina
Meta indigna (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870) -- see Leucauge
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 muraria C. L. Koch, 1841 -- see Metellina
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 piniophila (Bremi-Wolff, 1884) -- 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 soror Thorell, 1877 -- see Larinia
Meta speciosissima Keyserling, 1881 -- see Leucauge
Meta subterranea Lebert, 1877 -- see Metellina
Meta tigrina (Wider, 1834) -- see Drapetisca
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 variegata (Risso, 1826) -- see Metellina
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)
Meta novemmaculata (Martini & Goeze, 1778, T from Aranea) = Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804) (Thorell, 1870a: 38)
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
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