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Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Metellina  Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941   5 species

Metellina orientalis (Spassky, 1932)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013921

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Özkütük et al. 2017a)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Marusik 1986)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Özkütük et al. 2017a)

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female Epigyne
(Marusik 1986)

species

female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Özkütük et al. 2017a)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Özkütük et al. 2017a)

Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Marusik Y M A (1986) A redescription of types of certain orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae) from S. A. Spassky collection. Vestnik Zoologii 6: 19-22 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Özkütük R S, Marusik Y M, Kunt K B, Elverici M (2017a) Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). ZooKeys 695: 75-88 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-09-2017 Image insert