Meta (spider)
| Meta Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Meta sp. with eggsac | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Meta C. L. Koch, 1835 |
| Type species | |
| M. menardi (Latreille, 1804) | |
| Species | |
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26, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Meta is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1835. They are often associated with caves, caverns, and recesses, earning some of them the name "cave orbweavers"