N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Nuctobia Simon, 1864: 236 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06406] (type Meta fusca De Geer, 1778, sensu C. L. Koch, 1835 = misidentified Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804)) by Bonnet, 1957: 2783; 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; type genus of the subfamily Metainae Simon, 1894a: 726 (sub Meteae).
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Last updated: 2025-10-10
Species counts
ACCEPTED: 33
SYNONYM: 3
NOMEN DUBIUM: 3
