Meotipa sahyadri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Meotipa
Species:
M. sahyadri
Binomial name
Meotipa sahyadri
(Kulkarni, Siddharth & Vartak, 2017 )

Meotipa sahyadri is a spider species of the genus Meotipa that is mainly indigenous to the Western Ghats in India.[1][2][3][4]

Meotipa sahyadri, named after the Sanskrit name for the Western Ghats i.e., Sahyadri.

References

  1. "New Indian spider, named for Western Ghats". Indian Express. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. Kulkarni, Siddharth; Vartak, Atul; Deshpande, Vishwas; Halali, Dheeraj (2017). "Meotipa sahyadri in The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.827662. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  3. "[Arachnida • 2017] The Spiny Theridiid Genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Theridiidae) in India, with Description of A Strange New Species, Meotipa sahyadri, with Translucent Abdomen and A Phylogenetic Analysis about the Genus Placement". Novataxa. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. Kulkarni, Siddharth; Vartak, Atul; Deshpande, Vishwas; Halali, Dheeraj (13 July 2017). "The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Zootaxa. 4291 (3): 504–520. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.4. Retrieved 26 October 2017.


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