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Genus: Meotipa Simon, 1895 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Meotipa rufopicta (Thorell, 1895)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007138

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Described:

Distribution: Myanmar

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Ono et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Ariamnes rufopictus Thorell, 1895b: 76 (Df) Original description

Ariamnes rufopictus Agnarsson, 2004: 478 (T from Argyrodes, see note at Argyrodes)

Meotipa rufopictus Vanuytven, Jocqué & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2025: 145 (T from Ariamnes)

References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- Show included taxa

Vanuytven, H., Jocqué, R. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C. (2025). Spiders resembling worms: notes on Ariamnes Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Theridiidae) with the description of a new species from Papua New Guinea and the female of A. petilus Gao & Li, 2014. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, 2024): 132-147. [[publ. end of Jan. 2025]] -- 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
2025-01-30	Species updated		Old value	Species epithet corrected
2025-01-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Vanuytven, Jocqué & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2025
2025-01-30	Species transferred to new genus	Vanuytven, Jocqué & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2025		Species transferred from Ariamnes to Meotipa