Meringa
| Meringa | |
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| Meringa sp. male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Physoglenidae |
| Genus: | Forster, 1990[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. otago Forster, 1990
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| Species | |
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Meringa is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017.[3]
Species
As of September 2019 it contains nine species, found on New Zealand:[1]
- Meringa australis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa borealis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa centralis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa conway Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa hinaka Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa leith Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa nelson Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Meringa otago Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
- Meringa tetragyna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Meringa Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
- ^ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728.