Biology:Meriola
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Meriola | |
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| Meriola californica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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Meriola is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.[2]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Meriola Banks, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/557. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Genus Meriola". BugGuide. https://bugguide.net/node/view/364220. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
Wikidata ☰ Q1859439 entry
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