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Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China
Zhongwei Deng1,2,3, Ingi Agnarsson3,4, Zhanqi Chen1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China.
Abstract:
In an ongoing effort to expand knowledge of the Chinese cobweb spider fauna (Theridiidae), the genus Meotipa Simon, 1894 is reviewed. Two new species are described, Meotipapseudopicturata sp. nov., Meotipastriata sp. nov., and five known species are redescribed: Meotipaargyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952), Meotipapulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917), Meotipapicturata Simon, 1895, Meotipaspiniventris (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869), and Meotipavesiculosa Simon, 1895.

