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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Meotipa  Simon, 1895   2 species

Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa
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Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1956a) |||
References

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

Levi H W (1962) More American spiders of the genus Chrysso (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 69: 209-237 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

Schmidt G (1956a) Genus- und Speziesdiagnosen neuer, mit Bananen eingeschleppter Spinnen nebst Mitteilung über das Auffinden der Männchen zweier Spinnenarten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 24-31 pdf

Schmidt G (1956e) Liste der in den Jahren 1953 and 1954 mit Bananen nach Hamburg eingeschleppten Spinnen aus Franz.-Guinea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 239-241 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Yoshida H (1993) East Asian species of the genus Chrysso (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 42: 27-34 pdf

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