Hosta

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

Species

As of January 2024 it contains twenty species, found in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and on the Pacific Islands:^[1]

Meotipa andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
Meotipa argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) – China, Japan, Philippines, India
Meotipa bituberculata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
Meotipa capacifaba Li, Liu, Xu & Yin, 2020 – China
Meotipa impatiens Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
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 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

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)

^ ^a ^b ^c World Spider Catalog (2024). "Gen. Meotipa Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
^ Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160 [1393].