Meata

for the village in Guinea see Meata, Guinea
`spider'
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Meata
Zabka, 1985
Type species
Meata typica
Zabka, 1985
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Meata is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) from China and Vietnam.

Both species are only known from female specimens.[1]

M. typica from Vietnam is four mm long. Its carapace is orange-brown, dark around the eyes and covered with numerous white hairs. The opisthosoma is light grey with dark patches on the sides and at the rear, the legs are yellow-orange.[2]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Platnick 2007
  2. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 293

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