Biology:Meringa

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Meringa
Meringa male.jpg
Meringa sp. male
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Meringa
Forster, 1990[1]
Type species
M. otago
Forster, 1990
Species

9, see text

Meringa is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017.[3]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains nine species, found on New Zealand:[1]

  • Meringa australis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa borealis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa centralis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa conway Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa hinaka Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa leith Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa nelson Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Meringa otago Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
  • Meringa tetragyna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Meringa Forster, 1990. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3211. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 193: 1–116. 
  3. Dimitrov, D. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728. 

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