Meraha Explained

Meraha is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders. The genus was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae. The name is derived from the Malay "merah", meaning "red", referring to the reddish-orange hue of pedipalps. They are average sized cellar spiders with a cylindrical abdomen, and they build domed webs 0.5to above the ground.

Species

it contains seven species:

• M. chiangdao (Huber, 2011) – Thailand
• M. khene (Huber, 2011) – Laos, Vietnam
• M. kinabalu (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
• M. kipungit (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
• M. krabi (Huber, 2016) (type) – Thailand
• M. narathiwat (Huber, 2016) – Thailand
• M. shuye (Yao & Li, 2017) – Indonesia (Borneo)

See also

• Pholcus
• List of Pholcidae species

Further reading

• Dong. T. T.. Zheng. G.. Yao. Z. Y.. etal. 2017. Zootaxa. Ten new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia. 4306. 3. 339–369. 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.3.
• Huber. B. A.. 2011. Bonner Zoologische Monographien. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). 58. 1–509.