Meriola

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

Meriola
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 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

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Meriola Banks, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  2. Banks, N. (1895). "A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 3: 76–93.
  3. "Genus Meriola". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-20.


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