Meedo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachycosmidae
Genus: Meedo
Main, 1987[1]
Type species
M. houstoni
Main, 1987
Species

13, see text

Meedo is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachycosmidae, and was first described by Barbara York Main in 1987.[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains thirteen species:[1]

  • Meedo bluff Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Meedo booti Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Meedo broadwater Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Meedo cohuna Platnick, 2002 – eastern Australia
  • Meedo flinders Platnick, 2002 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Meedo gympie Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Meedo harveyi Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Meedo houstoni Main, 1987 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Meedo mullaroo Platnick, 2002 – Australia (South Australia, Queensland to Victoria)
  • Meedo munmorah Platnick, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Meedo ovtsharenkoi Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Meedo yarragin Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Meedo yeni Platnick, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria)

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Meedo Main, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Main, B. Y. (1987). "A new genus of clubionoid spider from Western Australia (Arachnida: Araneomorphae)". Australian Entomological Magazine. 13: 77–81.
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