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Meotipa

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Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[1][2]

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As of January 2025 it contains twenty two species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:[1][3]

  • Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977)India (Andaman Is.)
  • Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952)China, Japan, Philippines, India
  • Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
  • Meotipa capacifaba Li, Liu, Xu & Yin, 2020 – China
  • Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Meotipa kudawaensis Benjamin, 2024 – Sri Lanka
  • Meotipa luoqiae Lin & Li, 2021 – China
  • Meotipa makiling (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2015) – Philippines
  • Meotipa menglun Lin & Li, 2021 – China
  • Meotipa multuma Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian & Venkateshwarlu, 2017 – India
  • Meotipa pallida Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 (type) – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia
  • Meotipa pseudopicturata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
  • Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa
  • Meotipa sahyadri Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande & Halali, 2017 – India
  • Meotipa spiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
  • Meotipa sujii Benjamin, 2024 – Sri Lanka
  • Meotipa striata Deng, Agnarsson, Chen & Liu, 2022 – China
  • Meotipa thalerorum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
  • Meotipa ultapani Basumatary & Brahma, 2019 – India
  • Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895 – China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia
  • Meotipa zhengguoi Lin & Li, 2021 – China

In synonymy:

  • M. clementinae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
  • M. jianglensis (Zhu & Song, 1993) = Meotipa vesiculosa Simon, 1895
  • M. mussau Chrysanthus, 1975 = Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
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