Biology:Meotipa pulcherrima

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Short description: Species of spider

Meotipa pulcherrima
Chrysso.pulcherrima.female.-.tanikawa.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Meotipa
Species:
M. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Meotipa pulcherrima
(Mello-Leitão, 1917)

Meotipa pulcherrima is a species of cobweb spider in the family Theridiidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in Tropical Africa, and has been introduced into the Americas, Papua New Guinea, China, Korea, Japan, and the Pacific Islands.[3]

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References

Further reading

  • Adams, Richard J.; Manolis, Timothy D. (2014). Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520276611. 
  • Bradley, Richard A. (2012). Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520274884. 
  • Foelix, Rainer F. (2010). Biology of Spiders (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199734825. 
  • Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640. 
  • Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. 2005. ISBN 978-0977143900. 
  • Wheeler, W.C.; Coddington, J.A.; Crowley, L.M.; Dimitrov, D. et al. (2016). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics 33 (6): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2241596 entry