Meotipa sahyadri
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 | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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, named after the Sanskrit name for the Western Ghats i.e., Sahyadri.
References
- "New Indian spider, named for Western Ghats". Indian Express. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- "Meotipa sahyadri in The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India". Zenodo. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- "[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.
- 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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