Meriola

Meriola is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.^[2]

Meriola
Meriola californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trachelidae
Genus:	Meriola Banks, 1895[1]
Type species
M. decepta Banks, 1895
Species
24, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains twenty-four species,^[1] three from the United States and Canada:^[3]

• Meriola arcifera (Simon, 1886) – Chile, Bolivia, Argentina. Introduced to USA (California, Hawaii)^[3]
• Meriola balcarce Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola barrosi (Mello-Leitão, 1951) – Chile, Argentina
• Meriola californica (Banks, 1904) – USA (Pacific Coast and Baja California),^[3] Mexico
• Meriola cetiformis (Strand, 1908) – Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
• Meriola davidi Grismado, 2004 – Argentina
• Meriola decepta Banks, 1895 (type) – Eastern to Midwest United States & south to Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
• Meriola fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil, Argentina
• Meriola foraminosa (Keyserling, 1891) – Venezuela to Chile
• Meriola gallina Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile
• Meriola goloboffi Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola hyltonae (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Brazil, Argentina
• Meriola longitarsis (Simon, 1904) – Chile, Argentina
• Meriola manuel Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile
• Meriola mauryi Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola nague Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile
• Meriola penai Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile, Argentina
• Meriola puyehue Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile, Argentina
• Meriola quilicura Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile
• Meriola rahue Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola ramirezi Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola tablas Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Chile, Argentina
• Meriola teresita Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
• Meriola virgata (Simon, 1904) – Chile