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Genus: Meriola Banks, 1895 | Family: Trachelidae Simon, 1897

Meriola lineolata (Mello-Leitão, 1941)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025093

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil m (58289) - (González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021)

Taxonomic References

Ceto lineolata Mello-Leitão, 1941c: 253 (Dm; secondary homonym of Meriola lineolata (Mello-Leitão, 1938), S of Meriola arcifera, thus needs no replacement name) Original description

Cetonana lineolata Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017a: 225 (almost certainly misplaced)

Meriola lineolata González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021: 50, f. 39a-h, 40a-h, 41a-i, 42a-c (m, Df, T from Cetonana)

References

González Márquez, M. E., Grismado, C. J. & Ramírez, M. J. (2021). A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Meriola Banks (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4936(1): 1-113. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4936.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Jin, C., Yin, X. C. & Zhang, F. (2017a). Description of Paraceto gen. n. and a relimitation of the genus Cetonana (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4320(2): 225-244. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.2 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941c). Aranhas do Paraná. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico, Sao Paolo 11: 235-257. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2021-02-24	New taxonomic reference entry	González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021
2021-02-24	Species transferred to new genus	González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021		Species transferred from Cetonana to Meriola
2021-02-24	First description of female	González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021	Old value
2021-02-24	Species distribution update	González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021	Old value