Meringa Explained

Meringa is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.^[1] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017.^[2]

Species

it contains nine species, found on New Zealand:^[3]

• 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

• List of Physoglenidae species

Notes and References

1. 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. 1–116. 193. Raymond_Robert_Forster. Norman_I._Platnick. Jonathan_A._Coddington.
2. Dimitrov. D.. etal. 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. 10.1111/cla.12165. 34715728. free.
3. Gen. Meringa Forster, 1990. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.