Matidia (spider)

Matidia is a genus of southeast Asian sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.^[2] They are nocturnal spiders with long, slender bodies of greenish coloration. ^[3]

Matidia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Clubionidae
Genus:	Matidia Thorell, 1878[1]
Type species
M. virens Thorell, 1878
Species
17, see text
Synonyms[1]
Kakaibanoides Barrion & Litsinger, 1995

Species

As of November 2021^[update] it contains seventeen species:^[1]

• Matidia bipartita Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Matidia calcarata Thorell, 1878 – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Matidia chlora Chrysanthus, 1967 – New Guinea
• Matidia flagellifera Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Matidia incurvata Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Matidia mas Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Matidia missai Versteirt, Baert & Jocqué, 2010 – New Guinea
• Matidia muju Chrysanthus, 1967 – New Guinea
• Matidia paranga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
• Matidia simia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Matidia simplex Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Matidia spatulata Chen & Huang, 2006 – China, Taiwan
• Matidia strobbei Versteirt, 2010 – New Guinea
• Matidia trinotata Thorell, 1890 – Malaysia
• Matidia virens Thorell, 1878 (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas, Sulawesi)
• Matidia viridissima Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Matidia xieqian Yu & Li, 2021 – China