Meriola Explained
Meriola is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.[1]
Species
it contains twenty-four species,[2] three from the United States and Canada:[3]
- Meriola arcifera (Simon, 1886) – Chile, Bolivia, Argentina. Introduced to USA (California, Hawaii)
- Meriola balcarce Platnick & Ewing, 1995 – Argentina
- Meriola barrosi (Mello-Leitão, 1951) – Chile, Argentina
- Meriola californica (Banks, 1904) – USA (Pacific Coast and Baja California), 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
Notes and References
- Banks. N.. 1895. A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species.. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 76–93. 3.
- Gen. Meriola Banks, 1895. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-20. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
- Web site: Genus Meriola. BugGuide. 2019-05-20.
