| Meringa | |
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| Meringa sp. male | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Physoglenidae | 
| Genus: | Meringa Forster, 1990[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| M. otago Forster, 1990  | |
| Species | |
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Meringa is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017.[3]
Species
As of September 2019 it contains nine species, found on New Zealand:[1]
- Meringa australis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa borealis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa centralis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa conway Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa hinaka Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa leith Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa nelson Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 - Meringa otago Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
 - Meringa tetragyna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
 
See also
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Meringa Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
 - ↑ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
 - ↑ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728.
 
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