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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Meotipa  Simon, 1895   2 species

Meotipa spiniventris  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869)

Description
Male

As Female, but smaller and more slender.

Prosoma length: 0.8-0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7-0.8 mm.

Body length male: 1.8-2.1 mm
Female

Pale yellow. Prosoma with dark marginal line and black median stripe. Opisthosoma with 1-5 spines on each side of posterior border, white spots and transverse black stripes, posteriorly with 4 dark spots.

Prosoma length: 0.8-0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7-0.8 mm.

Body length female: 2.1-3.1 mm
Additional information

This species of Asian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). In the 1940ies it had been introduced to Europe (Netherlands) and did not establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Japan. Introduced to the Netherlands
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Netherlands   (van der Hammen, 1949) |||
References

Hammen L van der (1949) On Arachnida collected in Dutch greenhouses. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 91: 72-82 pdf

Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
01-08-2017 Distribution update Detail
09-11-2015 Image insert