Meedo (spider) explained

Meedo is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachycosmidae, and was first described by Barbara York Main in 1987.^[1]

Species

it contains thirteen species:^[2]

• Meedo bluff Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Meedo booti Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Meedo broadwater Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Queensland)
• Meedo cohuna Platnick, 2002 – eastern Australia
• Meedo flinders Platnick, 2002 – Australia (South Australia)
• Meedo gympie Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Meedo harveyi Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Meedo houstoni Main, 1987 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Meedo mullaroo Platnick, 2002 – Australia (South Australia, Queensland to Victoria)
• Meedo munmorah Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Meedo ovtsharenkoi Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Meedo yarragin Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Meedo yeni Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria)

Notes and References

1. Main. B. Y.. 1987. A new genus of clubionoid spider from Western Australia (Arachnida: Araneomorphae).. Australian Entomological Magazine. 77–81. 13.
2. Gen. Meedo Main, 1987. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.