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

Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049712

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Described:

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka

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Holotype: Arachnology Division, Sacred Heart College (ADSH), Cochin, Kerala, India f (101672A) - (Murthappa et al., 2017)

Taxonomic References

Meotipa multuma Murthappa et al., 2017: 592, f. 3A-E, 4E-F (Df) Original description

Meotipa multuma Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021b: 81, f. 1-8 (Dm, f)

Meotipa multuma Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024: 5, f. 1A-C, 4A-I, 5A-H, 6A-C (mf)

References

Benjamin, S. P. & Tharmarajan, M. (2024). Species of the genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 with descriptions of two new species from Sri Lanka and one from China (Araneae: Theridiidae). ZooNova 39: 1-26. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14187906 -- Show included taxa

Murthappa, P. S., Malamel, J. J., Prajapati, D. A., Sebastian, P. A. & Venkateshwarlu, M. (2017). First description of the male of the type species Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 and description of a new Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from India. Zootaxa 4344(3): 589-596. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.9 -- Show included taxa

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2021b). First description of the male of the theridiid spider Meotipa multuma (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 18(1): 80-84. -- 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
2024-11-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024
2024-11-20	Species distribution update	Benjamin & Tharmarajan, 2024	Old value
2021-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021b
2021-11-11	First description of male	Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021b	Old value
2019-07-14	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected
2017-11-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Murthappa et al., 2017
2017-11-08	New species inserted	Murthappa et al., 2017